AI tool helps farmers keep nutrient pollution out of water
- Mar 16
- 1 min read
An AI program, PlantMap3D, will help farmers apply only as much fertilizer as they need to supplement nutrients left behind by cover crops.
Cover crops, usually grasses and legumes, are grown by farmers during the offseason when fields aren’t producing their main cash crops. Cover crops reduce nutrient pollution in agricultural runoff by reducing erosion and taking up nutrients, storing them in the plants and the soil for later use by cash crops.
The AI technology will analyze the cover crops and calculate the amount of nutrients the plants add to the soil before the farmer plants the cash crop.
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