{"id":218853,"date":"2026-05-22T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/budd-introduces-bipartisan-farm-ai-bill-supported-by-nc-state\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:45:18","slug":"budd-introduces-bipartisan-farm-ai-bill-supported-by-nc-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/budd-introduces-bipartisan-farm-ai-bill-supported-by-nc-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Budd introduces bipartisan FARM AI bill supported by NC State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/budd-introduces-bipartisan-farm-ai-bill-supported-by-nc-state\/\">Budd introduces bipartisan FARM AI bill supported by NC State<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/budd-introduces-bipartisan-farm-ai-bill-supported-by-nc-state\/\">https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/budd-introduces-bipartisan-farm-ai-bill-supported-by-nc-state\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 15:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.carolinajournal.com\">www.carolinajournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republican US Sen. Ted Budd, alongside a bipartisan group of lawmakers, introduced the &#8220;Fostering Agricultural Research and Modernization through Artificial Intelligence (FARM AI) Act.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The bill aims to enhance innovation and productivity in American agriculture through AI technologies, backed by increased funding for AI projects via USDA grants.<\/li>\n<li>The legislation focuses on education and outreach to farmers, workforce development, and access to AI technologies in agricultural settings, supported by North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Life Sciences Organization (NCLifeSci).<\/li>\n<li>The act seeks to prioritize research and development of AI under the USDA\u2019s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) and Advanced Research and Development Authority.<\/li>\n<li>The bill proposes expanding AI and precision agriculture training and creating a senior USDA official role to serve as the AI advisor in agriculture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budd introduces bipartisan FARM AI bill supported by NC State https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/budd-introduces-bipartisan-farm-ai-bill-supported-by-nc-state\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-22 15:41:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-21-at-2.21.53-PM.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218853","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\/218853"}],"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=218853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218855,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218853\/revisions\/218855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}