Let’s Get Smart About Climate Change and Farming

ARS Research Ecologist Steven Mirsky and his team develop climate smart farming systems by employing artificial intelligence (AI) to help farms become more sustainable and environmentally friendly. They’re mounting sensing technologies to tractors that combine computer vision and AI, to map crop and cover crops species and biomass in order to estimate nitrogen release and lower greenhouse gasses on farms. To feed a growing world while reducing greenhouse gasses, agriculture must become more precise and sustainable. This requires providing state-of-the-art tools and climate-smart technologies to our farmers and growers to enable real-time decision making and long-term planning.

To learn more, visit the Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory website and watch short videos of some of ARS’s other cool technologies.