What work in agriculture will be revolutionized by artificial intelligence (AI)? Ryan Raguse, chief innovation officer and co-founder at Bushel, expects AI to bring further insights, replace repetitive tasks and more.
“It’s already all around us. You just can’t necessarily touch it, feel it all the time,” Raguse says. “AI runs a lot of the stock market, and commodity markets. If you doing a search on the internet or mapping an address on Google maps, you’re using it.”
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For ag retailers, he expects the biggest changes to come in agronomic sciences and business operations.
So what makes AI different than data analysis? Raguse differentiates the two by explaining data analysis is rigid and slow (for example, one graph visualizing data) whereas AI is constantly making updates, inputting new data and generating output.
For example, in agronomic sciences, “it has the ability to take data and then give growers and producers insights that they might not have already come about on the surface,” he says.
With every day tasks, “artificial intelligence has the capability to do a lot of tasks. So when we talk about various AI agents that are coming onto the scene, so how do we take routine tasks, and how do we make those just completed using AI,” he offers.
Three specific applications he sees AI taking over in the next three years include:
- Fertilizer and chemical recommendations
- Most bookkeeping tasks
- Route planning and scouting
He’ll be part of a panel discussion at the upcoming Ag Retailers Association Conference, Dec. 3 to 5 in Houston. Click here for the full agenda and to register.
