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Quality Assessment by Artificial Intelligence will bring a new level of trust, traceability and transparency to Australian agriculture – here’s how. AI for a Prosperous Future: How AI Assessment of Quality Can Empower Australian Farmers
By Dr. Sivam Krish
is now emerging, shifting the paradigm of assessment from machine-centric to farmer-centric solutions for buyers. This opens up entirely new possibilities that go well beyond quality assessment. Farmers want to get the best price for what they produce. They want to know who to sell to and whether they should store or sell now, but all these decisions depend on the harvest quality. If quality could be assessed reliably at harvest, farmers would be in a powerful position to maximise its value. AI and blockchain technologies will soon be woven into the process to create seamless quality assessment
AI has the potential to revolutionise grain assess- ment and trading through unprecedented accur- acy and efficiency. The Australian Grain Industry is aware of this as key industry bodies, like GRDC and GTA, have recently sought proposals to help navi- gate the AI-driven landscape. Following many expensive attempts to develop im- aging and generative AI between 2000 and 2014, new machine learning algorithms have finally broken down technology barriers for Australian grain corporations. While these attempts were designed for buyers, a new breed of smartphone-powered AI Assessment solution
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