Farming for the future | Where the Internet Lives

By Google

Categories: AI, Product

Summary

By combining AI, predictive breeding, and biotech, Heritable aims to rapidly accelerate crop development timelines and costs, enabling small farmers to access the latest farming techniques and boost yields by 25-30% while reducing water and fertilizer use by 20-30%.

Key Takeaways

1. Heritable is using AI models and cloud computing to simulate plant performance anywhere in the world, providing actionable insights to breeders, farmers, and the agricultural system.
2. Heritable's custom field trials build AI-ready datasets to predict plant performance or uncover the underlying biology for further breeding programs.
3. Heritable's work in Leamington, Ontario allows small strawberry producers to quickly trial and adopt new high-performing varieties to boost yields by 25-30%.
4. Heritable's plant tissue sampling and -80°C storage enables extraction of molecular data (DNA, RNA, metabolites) to feed into their AI models.
5. Heritable's AI models running on Google Cloud infrastructure provide insights to optimize plants for reduced water and fertilizer use by 20-30%.
6. Heritable aims to build a more sustainable and equitable agricultural system, feeding the world with higher quality, lower-cost crops using less land, water, and fertilizer.

Topics

• Predictive Breeding
• Agricultural AI
• Sustainable Farming
• Precision Crop Optimization
• Cloud-Powered Biotech

Transcript Excerpt

The agricultural system has done an amazing job of feeding a population that we never even thought would be possible on this planet. But that's come at a cost. Agriculture occupies nearly half of all habitable land, emits nearly a quarter of all GHG emissions, and is responsible for 70% of freshwater withdrawals. There is a better path. We need to find the exact right plant to grow in the exact right environment, with the exact right inputs, to make a more healthy, sustainable and equitable agri...