Artificial Intelligence Could Save Our Food

As the world's population is anticipated to increase over the years, the worlds capacity to produce food simply cannot keep up with the demands. With the Earth already being quickly contained by crop farms and livestock, space for additional production is becoming extremely limited. Although in the recent years, improved farming has allowed increased crop yields, the expansion cannot keep up with the population. We will not be able to merely plant more plants, or breed more livestock anymore without negatively effecting the ecosystem. A new solution must be put into place. As current technological automated farming trucks have been created, a number of forms are taking place to solve local issues and maximize food output. Moving into the future, Companies like Fermentrics  have began harnessing algorithms to detect cows body shapes, fermentation, and digestibility. The company is also working to apply their techniques to plants, which would allow targeted plant treatment, rather than barraging entire fields with chemicals. This will help lead to more effective disease prevention and will decrease chemical usage to reduce damage to the ecosystem. A hope for the future is a fully networked farm which would have direct access to weather satellites, to be able to foresee what the crops on farms may need. As the need for a food solution is near, farming smarter would lead to higher success rates with less wastage allowing more food to be supplied to more people.