A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmed land or might work as a labourer on land owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farmer is usually a farm owner, while employees of the farm are farm workers, farmhands, etc.
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Agriculture on Mars: Can it be done?
Martian colonies of the future will require vast quantities of food, but bringing an endless stream of foodstuffs from Earth ...
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How AI is helping Indian cotton farmers reduce pesticide use
There are more than 5.8 million cotton farmers in India according to the country's Textile Ministry. Every year, they face ...
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Alphabet X has built a ‘plant buggy’ — a cute AI farmer
The crop-inspecting robot is part of a new Alphabet X "computational agriculture" project called Mineral.
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IBM announces Call for Code 2020 grand prize winner
IBM gave the prize to Agrolly, an app that helps small farmers threatened by climate change decide what to plant and when. ...
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Alphabet's AI-powered camera system will help fish live their best lives
Google parent company Alphabet has launched Tidal, a project that uses underwater cameras connected to computer vision software ...
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[Best of 2019] Why farmers hold the answer to making the personal data economy work
In the consumer world, personal data has been used as a “payment” for services, whether that be a Facebook account or ...
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Oxfam used Ethereum for insurance claims, but Sri Lankan farmers prefer cash
Oxfam Sri Lanka's recent Ethereum pilot discovered that local farmers simply don't have the required equipment to use blockchain ...
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How affordable agricultural technology is solving food insecurity in Nigeria
The global population is predicted to grow by 2 billion by 2050 and with more than half of that growth coming from Sub-Saharan ...
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Here’s why farmers and blockchain are actually a great fit
In agriculture, an industry that employs over one billion people and generates more than $1.3 trillion worth of food every ...
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Animals and plants help engineers light up cities, detect explosives, and predict natural disasters
For decades, humans have modeled technology on observations of the natural world. But new discoveries about nature—and ...
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Microalgae could be the future of sustainable farming
You might not be able to stomach soybeans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the animals you eat do. Cultivation of the ...
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The digital farming revolution will cost workers their power, dignity, and possibly their jobs
There’s a lot of talk about digital technology and smart cities, but what about smart farms? Many of us still have a romantic ...
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JD.com says putting chickens on the blockchain was great for business
JD.com started tracking free-range chicken with a blockchain early last year, and it worked so well, it's going to do the ...
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Scarecrow drones keep birds away from crops without causing them harm
As drones have become more common and affordable, many animal-loving people have worried about their tendency to scare wildlife. ...
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Fuck Aladdin, CRYPTO is the only live action film we want to see
This is the movie of the Bitcoin life you wish were leading. Seriously, this has everything. Even Kurt Russell in a farmer's ...
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Alors Monsieur Macron, stop trying to make la chaîne de blocs happen
French President Emmanuel Macron wants to leverage the power of blockchain technology to make the agriculture industry more ...
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AI will soon decide what we eat
Machines will take away our free will and force us to eat soylent green. Just kidding. They'll actually help us feed more ...
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A deadly tree disease is devastating the citrus industry – AI can help
The citrus tree is in trouble. Florida's citrus industry has been devastated and California's is next. Artificial intelligence ...
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7 industry leaders explain how to punch failure in the throat
You’re not special — everybody fails. The importance lies in how you react to failure, and learning to bounce back ...
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Farmers blame Volkswagen's 'weather cannons' for recent drought
Facing ominous skies, Volkswagen was prepared. It wasn't sweating the forecast, which included calls for rain and, perhaps, ...
