{"id":202290,"date":"2026-04-05T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/iowa-state-develops-ai-tool-to-help-farmers-identify-and-remove-pests\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:10:12","slug":"iowa-state-develops-ai-tool-to-help-farmers-identify-and-remove-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/iowa-state-develops-ai-tool-to-help-farmers-identify-and-remove-pests\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa State develops AI tool to help farmers identify and remove pests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/iowa-state-develops-ai-tool-to-help-farmers-identify-and-remove-pests\/70935087\">Iowa State develops AI tool to help farmers identify and remove pests<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/iowa-state-develops-ai-tool-to-help-farmers-identify-and-remove-pests\/70935087\">https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/iowa-state-develops-ai-tool-to-help-farmers-identify-and-remove-pests\/70935087<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-05 00:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kcci.com\">www.kcci.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers at Iowa State University have created an app named Pest ID, which uses AI to help farmers identify and manage pests.<\/li>\n<li>The app allows users to upload photos of weeds or insects and provides information on their identification and removal.<\/li>\n<li>The app has been in development for about ten years, trained using millions of images and data from Iowa State experts.<\/li>\n<li>Farmers benefit from the app by being able to identify pests themselves, saving costs for labor and resources by tackling young pests more easily.<\/li>\n<li>AI integration aims to combat the development of herbicide and insecticide resistance by providing targeted management solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers are also working on expanding the app to identify plant diseases like southern rust.<\/li>\n<li>The current version of the app is now available, aiming to offer farmers confidence in managing their crops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa State develops AI tool to help farmers identify and remove pests https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/iowa-state-develops-ai-tool-to-help-farmers-identify-and-remove-pests\/70935087 Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/vidthumb\/6762e536-5b57-4dd3-870a-fb6b3e286e2c\/81edb592-5533-4e3a-ae58-39666c485431.jpg?crop=1.00xw:1.00xh;0,0&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202290"}],"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=202290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202292,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202290\/revisions\/202292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}