Drones, robots, AI may hold the future to weed control strategies

For the last 250 years, agriculture has been on a fast track with technologies that improve weed control strategies in farming and ranching.

Whether it be new herbicide modes of action, special electric weeders, sprayers with booms and cameras that can follow prescriptions or robots that use artificial intelligence and mapping to kill weeds, weeding technologies have developed vastly from the hoes …