The Senate Ag Committee evaluated adoption and complications of artificial intelligence in agriculture during a hearing Tuesday.

In her opening comments, partially generated by AI, Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow stressed the need for farmers to benefit from the data used by the technology, not large corporations.

“High costs are putting AI and precision agriculture technology out of reach for everyone except the largest operations,” she says.  “We must work to ensure that its application does not force even more small and medium-sized farms out of business.”

Dakota State University President Dr.

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