{"id":173873,"date":"2026-01-02T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/artificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:30:13","slug":"artificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/artificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence: A new kind of farmhand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wfin.com\/agnet\/artificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand\/?utm_sourceu003drssu0026utm_mediumu003drssu0026utm_campaignu003dartificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand\">Artificial intelligence: A new kind of farmhand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wfin.com\/agnet\/artificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand\/?utm_sourceu003drssu0026utm_mediumu003drssu0026utm_campaignu003dartificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand\">https:\/\/wfin.com\/agnet\/artificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand\/?utm_sourceu003drssu0026utm_mediumu003drssu0026utm_campaignu003dartificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-02 01:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wfin.com\">wfin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Farmers are already utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to guide agronomic and economic decisions, according to Scott Shearer, Ph.D., from Ohio State\u2019s College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.<\/li>\n<li>AI is being employed for automation on field machinery, particularly autonomous tractors with collision avoidance, enhancing precision farming.<\/li>\n<li>AI allows farmers to selectively apply inputs, such as targeted spraying of weeds instead of broadcast applications, which reduces chemical costs.<\/li>\n<li>The implementation of AI in agriculture promises substantial environmental benefits due to reduced chemical usage.<\/li>\n<li>Shearer presented these insights at the Ohio No-Till Conference in December, highlighting the growing integration of AI in modern farming practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence: A new kind of farmhand https:\/\/wfin.com\/agnet\/artificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand\/?utm_sourceu003drssu0026utm_mediumu003drssu0026utm_campaignu003dartificial-intelligence-a-new-kind-of-farmhand Publish Date: 2026-01-02 01:16:00 Source Domain: wfin.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Artificial-Intelligence-A-New-Kind-of-Farmhand-FFEqwR.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-173873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173875,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173873\/revisions\/173875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}