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IoT-enabled Agricultural (IoTAg) monitoring is smart, connected agriculture's fastest-growing ... [+] technology segment projected to reach $4.5 billion by 2025, according to PwC.

AI, machine learning (ML) and the IoT sensors that provide real-time data for algorithms increase agricultural efficiencies, improve crop yields and reduce food production costs. According to the United Nations' prediction data on population and hunger, the world's population will increase by 2 billion people by 2050, requiring a 60% increase in food productivity to feed them. In the U.S. alone, growing, processing and distributing food is a $1.7 trillion business, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. AI and ML are already showing the potential to help close the gap in anticipated food needs for an additional 2 billion people worldwide by 2050.

Agriculture Is One Of The Most Fertile Industries There Are For AI & Machine Learning

Imagine having at least 40 essential processes to keep track of, excel at and monitor at the same time across a large farming area often measured in the hundreds of acres. Gaining insight into how weather, seasonal sunlight, migratory patterns of animals, birds, insects, use of specialized fertilizers, insecticides by crop, planting cycles and irrigation cycles all affect yield is a perfect problem for machine learning. How financially successful a crop cycle has never been more dependent on excellent data. That's why farmers, co-ops and agricultural development companies are doubling down on data-centric approaches and expanding the scope and scale of how they use AI and machine learning to improve agricultural yields and quality. The following are ten ways AI has the potential to improve agriculture in 2021:

1.Using AI and machine learning-based surveillance systems to monitor every crop field's real-time video feeds identifies animal or human breaches, sending an alert immediately.AI and machine learning reduce domestic and wild animals' potential to accidentally destroy crops or experience a break-in or burglary at a remote farm location. Given the rapid advances in video analytics fueled by AI and machine learning algorithms, everyone involved in farming can protect their fields and buildings' perimeters. AI and machine learning video surveillance systems scale just as easily for a large-scale agricultural operation as for an individual farm.Machine-learning based surveillance systems can be programmed or trained over time to identify employees versus vehicles. Twenty20 Solutions is a leader in the field of AI and machine learning-based surveillance and has proven effective in securing remote facilities, optimizing crops and deterring trespassers by using machine learning to identify employees who work onsite. An example of Twenty20 Solutions' real-time monitoring is shown here:

Relying on AI and machine learning algorithms to identify people and vehicles is streamlining remote ... [+] operations for agricultural businesses globally today.

2.AI and machine learning improve crop yield prediction through real-time sensor data and visual analytics data from drones. The amount of data being captured by smart sensors and drones providing real-time video streaming provides agricultural experts with entirely new data sets they've never had access to before. It's now possible to combine in-ground sensor data of moisture, fertilizer and natural nutrient levels to analyze growth patterns for each crop over time. Machine learning is the perfect technology to combine massive data sets and provide constraint-based advice for optimizing crop yields. The following is an example of how AI, machine learning, in-ground sensors, infrared imagery and real-time video analytics all combine to provide farmers with new insights into how they can improve crop health and yields:

Drones are proving to be a reliable platform for capturing data on how specific fertilizers, ... [+] watering patterns and pesticide treatment methods are improving crop yields.

3.Yield mapping is an agricultural technique that relies on supervised machine learning algorithms to find patterns in large-scale data sets and understand the orthogonality of them in real-time all of which is invaluable for crop planning. Its possible to know the potential yield rates of a given field before a vegetation cycle is ever started. Using a combination of machine learning techniques to analyze 3D mapping, social condition data from sensors and drone-based data of soil color, agricultural specialists can now predict the potential soil yields for a given crop. A series of flights are completed to get the most accurate data set possible. The following graphic shows the result of a yield mapping analysis:

Supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms are being used to determine how best to ... [+] optimize yields by field.

4.The UN, international agencies and large-scale agricultural operations are pioneering drone data combined with in-ground sensors to improve pest management. Using infrared camera data from drones combined with sensors on fields that can monitor plants' relative health levels, agricultural teams using AI can predict and identify pest infestations before they occur. An example of this is how the UN is using working in conjunction with PwC to evaluate data palm orchards in Asia for potential pest infestations, as is shown in the image below:

The UN is combining on-ground sensor and drone data to fine-tune their machine learning algorithms ... [+] that assist farmers in achieving greater yields from the crops.

5.Today, theres a shortage of agricultural workers, making AI and machine learning-based smart tractors, agribots and robotics a viable option for many remote agricultural operations that struggle to find workers.Large-scale agricultural businesses cant find enough employees and turn to robotics for hundreds of acres of crops while also providing an element of security around the perimeter of remote locations. Programming self-propelled robotics machinery to distribute fertilizer on each row of crops helps keep operating costs down and further improve field yields. Agriculture robots sophistication has grown quickly, an example of which is shown in the dashboard of the VineScout robot in use.

Agricultural robotics are proving to be adept at capturing valuable data for fine-tuning AI and ... [+] machine learning algorithms, further improving crop yields.

6.Improving the track-and-traceability of agricultural supply chains by removing roadblocks to getting fresher, safer crops to market is a must-have today. The pandemic accelerated track-and-traceability adoption across all agricultural supply chains in 2020 and will continue to drive its adoption this year. A well-managed track-and-trace system helps reduce inventory shrinkage by providing greater visibility and control across supply chains. A state-of-the-art track-and-trace system can differentiate between inbound shipments' batch, lot and container level assignments of materials. Most advanced track-and-trace systems rely on advanced sensors to gain greater knowledge of each shipment's condition. RFID and IoT sensors are now becoming more commonplace across manufacturing. Walmart ran a pilot to see how RFID could streamline a distribution center's track-and-trace performance and improved efficiency by 16 times over manual methods.

7.Optimize the right mix of biodegradable pesticides and limiting their application to only the field areas that need treatment to reduce costs while increasing yields is one of the most common uses of AI and machine learning in agriculture today. By using intelligent sensors combined with visual data streams from drones, agricultural AI applications can now detect a planting area's most infected areas. Using supervised machine learning algorithms, they can then define the optimal mix of pesticides to reduce pests' threat spreading further and infecting healthy crops.

8.Price forecasting for crops based on yield rates that help predict total volumes produced are invaluable in defining pricing strategies for a given crop. Understanding yield rates and quality levels of crops help agricultural firms, co-ops and farmers better negotiate for the best possible price for their harvests. Considering the total demand for a given crop to determine if the price elasticity curve for a given crop is inelastic, unitary, or highly elastic defines what the pricing strategy will be. Knowing this data alone saves agricultural businesses millions of dollars a year in lost revenue.

9.Finding irrigation leaks, optimizing irrigation systems and measuring how effective frequent crop irrigation improves yield rates are all areas AI contributes to improving farming efficiencies. Water is the scarcest resource in many parts of North America, especially in communities that rely most on agriculture as their core business. Being efficient in using it can mean the difference between a farm or agricultural operation staying profitable or not. Linear programming is often used to calculate the optimal amount of water a given field or crop will need to reach an acceptable yield level. Supervised machine learning algorithms are ideal for ensuring fields and crops get enough water to optimize yields without wasting any in the process.

10.Monitoring livestocks health, including vital signs, daily activity levels and food intake, ensures their health is one of the fastest-growing aspects of AI and machine learning in agriculture. Understanding how every type of livestock reacts to diet and boarding conditions is invaluable in understanding how they can be best treated for the long-term. Using AI and machine learning to understand what keeps daily cows contended and happy, producing more milk is essential. For many farms who rely on cows and livestock, this area opens up entirely new insights into how farms can be more profitable.

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10 Ways AI Has The Potential To Improve Agriculture In 2021 - Forbes

Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state

It seemed like a fairly innocuous request.

In 1997, when Hillary Clinton was the first lady, she organized a conference on child care to discuss its challenges, and to request increased federal funding for programs like Head Start or tax incentives for businesses. She asked the treasury secretary at the time, Robert Rubin, to start the panel.

He was puzzled by the invitation. I think he was taken somewhat aback in being asked, Mrs. Clinton recalled in a phone interview with The New York Times. It was a little bit outside his comfort zone.

In the end, Mr. Rubin agreed to speak on the panel. But the broader issue of convincing men that they should prioritize and care about so-called womens issues never went away not even for Mrs. Clinton.

She kept pushing the agenda anyway: In an attempt to make womens rights a priority, the Clinton administration created the countrys first-ever presidential body focused on gender issues the Interagency Council on Women and the then-first lady served as its honorary chair.

That council didnt just shine a powerful spotlight on womens issues that had not had much attention at the time, it also set up something of a precedent for future administrations.

The Obama administration took that council a step further, expanding its power and plans, under the leadership of Tina Tchen and Valerie Jarrett, who both also faced their fair share of eye-rolls and glazed looks.

We got a little bit of pushback externally, with things like Gee, wheres the council on men and boys? said Ms. Tchen, who now serves as the president and chief executive of the anti-sexual harassment movement Times Up. I was like, I think thats every other council.

And now, President Biden has announced the creation of a new White House Gender Policy Council, with two full-time chairwomen: Jennifer Klein and Julissa Reynoso. Its goal is to ensure that every government agency considers how all of its policies, whether its curbing climate change or building new infrastructure, may intersect with the lives of women and L.G.B.T.Q.+ people.

Whether the council will have an easier time bringing high-level agency heads and lawmakers aboard remains to be seen. But the structure of the council, against a backdrop of the twin crises of the pandemic and an economic downturn that have disproportionately upended womens lives, suggests it might have more power than anything that had existed before.

In Her Words caught up with Mrs. Clinton to discuss how effective she thinks this new council can be, compared with the one that was created when she was first lady, and what had or had not changed in the past quarter century.

The conversation has been edited for clarity and length.

What are your thoughts on how the Gender Policy Council is structured? Does it have the power and tools to really help women in this time of crisis?

The council is an absolutely critical first step. It sends a very clear message to the rest of government that there is going to be constant attention paid to how important it is to integrate the concerns that women are facing, especially post-pandemic, in every walk of life, and that the administration is expecting to highlight a governmentwide focus on uplifting the rights of girls and women, not only in our country but across the globe.

But clearly the work is making it a reality by coordinating among all of the agencies of the federal government who have a seat at the table and actually bringing forward legislative and regulatory changes that will fulfill the mission of the council.

Is a council in the White House the best way to help women right now? Or is there a better way to approach it?

Ill answer your question by saying its necessary, but not sufficient. If you dont have a council in the White House, you dont signal the importance of these issues to the incoming president and vice president. If you dont staff it with really smart, experienced people, then youre setting it up for failure.

Part of the challenge for the council is to get very specific, and then set up both a structure and a timeline for involving the rest of the government.

I know how effective both Jen and Julissa are, having worked with both of them. They know that youve got to drive a bureaucracy. You cant just say, OK, we care about everybody, go out and do good. You have to implement it. You have to have measures of accountability. You have to be absolutely on it every day.

Weve seen how easy it is to disband these gender-focused councils, as has been done under multiple Republican presidents. So how can the American government institutionalize something like this?

What you really want is to institutionalize the legislative and regulatory changes. Setting up a council is not, by itself, going to move us toward paid family leave. Its not going to improve child care quality. Those things require the kind of hard legislative and regulatory work that can lead to lasting changes that cannot be so easily eliminated.

Should the U.S. have a dedicated gender department, like the Office for Women in Australia or similar setups that other countries have adopted?

There are different approaches that are certainly worth looking at. But in this country right now, where we have so many incredible challenges, I think what we want to do is focus on getting results for people and not letting a bureaucracy become the goal. Because I dont think most women would care about that. I think they would rightly say, Well, how does that help me get better access to quality child care?

Twenty-five years after your speech in Beijing with your now iconic statement womens rights are human rights the world still talks about womens rights in a condescending way, as if its something that is granted to women not something they inherently deserve and that can be easily taken away. Should the discussion around womens rights be reframed?

I wrote an article in The Atlantic to commemorate the Beijing speech in September, and I made the case that we needed to shift our attention and certainly our rhetoric from a rights-based framework to a power-based one. You cannot continue to argue about whether women deserve certain rights or not. Why are we still having to demand our rights? Isnt there an equity agenda that treats mothers and fathers equally? The power imbalance that still exists is what I think has to be the basis for the debate going forward.

If you just call for equal pay, for example, and you dont look at the disparities as to where women are working, which weve now seen painfully exposed because of the pandemic with all of the essential workers in health care and other frontline businesses, then youre missing the bigger picture.

Robert Rubin was puzzled when you invited him to participate in a conference on child care. Is this kind of interaction mens befuddlement, their eyes glazing over commonplace for you when youre advocating rights for women and girls?

All the time. In fact, I wrote in my book Hard Choices about my four years as secretary of state, that Ive grown somewhat tired of watching otherwise thoughtful people smile and nod when I brought up the concerns of women and girls. Even some of the men who worked with me in the State Department at high levels I would say, OK, were going to India and were going to obviously do all the official meetings, but then were going to a place called the Self-employed Womens Association because its the largest collective of women in the world. And you could just see, it was like, Oh, here she goes again.

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This article has been updated to include statements from Ohio University. Additionally, the article has been updated to refer to the event as a fireside chat.

Ohio University will host the former U.S. Secretary and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in March, as part of a Womens History Month celebration.

Clinton will be joined by her daughter Chelsea Clinton in the virtual fireside chat, on March 2 at 4 p.m.

Ohio University Spokesperson Carly Leatherwood told The Messenger there was no cost to the university or students for the event.

The event is called A Fireside Chat with Secretary Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, and the two will discuss their book, The Book of Gutsy Women, as well as female leadership during the 21st century.

Cindy Anderson, professor of sociology and chair of the Sociology & Anthropology Department at Ohio University, will moderate the fireside chat event.

Clinton served as U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, was a senator from New York, first lady of the United States, and first lady of Arkansas. In 2016, she ran for U.S. president and was defeated by Donald Trump.

Chelsea Clinton serves on the boards of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Chelsea Clinton also teaches at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health and has written several books for young readers.

Dr. Gigi Secuban, Ohio University Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, said the Clinton fireside chat would be an inspiration to women.

It is a tremendous honor to welcome Secretary Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton to Ohio University during Womens History Month 2021, Secuban said This conversation about women in leadership is all the more poignant at a time when we have the first-ever woman, and woman of color, as vice president of the United States. A look at women leaders throughout global history reminds us that fearlessness, compassion, and civic engagement can pave the path to an inclusive and equitable future.

Registration is available at this link:

Registered participants will have a chance to be entered into a drawing to win a signed copy of The Book of Gutsy Women.

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The following was originally posted in August, 2016. Presidents Day seems like a good time to look back and see how things played out:

How you process the title of this piece depends upon your predisposition toward Hillary Clinton.

If you're a Republican or a registered Clinton-hater, you're probably resentful that the Clintons get away with stuff that you can't. Maybe they do, but that's certainly not unique in politics.

AsAri Goldsaid in the Entourage movie, Thats what stars do: they walk into rooms and fuck girls that civilians want.

What you may not realize is that much of your resentment for the Clintons has been carefully cultivated by a 30-year assault on them by special interest groups whose only goal is to discredit Democratic initiatives to regulate corporate America.

It's no coincidence that lobbyists from health care to tobacco and oil have unfettered access to GOP legislators.

Please don't take my word for it, check the facts yourself. Just don't do it on Fox's website.

Hillary Clinton can rob a bank every Friday night and steal the collection plate on Sunday and is still more qualified to be Commander in Chief than Donnie Trump.

Presidents, like doctors should do no harm. Whatever Hillary Clinton did or didn't do with her emails, she will not turn the planet into a nuclear wasteland, nor will she rip out the soul of America.

What she did was stupid, not criminal. Anyone who's ever been divorced can admit to at least one stupid act.

Whatever responsibility you think Hillary Clinton has for the incident in Benghazi in 2012, she still has more foreign policy experience than all the Republican primary candidates put together.

Never mind that there were 13 such attacks under President George W. Bush, resulting in 60 deaths and ZERO INVESTIGATIONS.

Clinton is eminently more qualified to meet with foreign leaders than the GOP candidate who was somehow left standing when the dust cleared.

That's not to say that Donnie doesn't have any familiarity with foreign leaders. He's a great admirer of Vladimir Putin, who probably has some interesting photos of Donnie.

According to Don, he got very familiar with Putin when they were on60 Minutes together. The fact that their segments were filmed at different times and in different countries wasn't a barrier to their bonding in Trump's fertile and fetid imagination.

Other foreign leaders earning Trump's admiration include Kim Jung-Un, Saddam Hussein and Benito Mussolini.

You definitely want to vote for a man whose role models include some of the worst tyrants and mass murderers in history.

It's not surprising that Trump's campaign manager,Paul Manafortis a man who makes a living cleaning up the images of brutal dictators,

This election is not about politics or policy. Donald Trump has neither.

Golda Meir once said, We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.

In this election, you need to love your children more than you hate the Clintons.

A man who says that a sexually harassed woman shouldfind a new careermay be able to host a reality show, but he knows nothing about women who don't have billionaire fathers.

If Hillary Clinton is the first American to be called, Madam President, it will only be the third presidential term not served by a White man.

We've had a few Madam Secretaries, including Secretaries Clinton, Albright, Rice andTea Leoni, but Madam President would be a first for this country.

Cherry Jones played President Allison Taylor on24, her presidency only undermined by aduplicitousmale adviser.

If you have a fatal case of Trumpism, you're probably thinking that there will be no Madam President.

If that's the case, you should consider an appropriate title for your guy, should he win.

Do you preferFuhreror Supreme Leader?

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Hillary Clinton included herself in a photo of presidents on Presidents Day, but left out her own husband Bill Clinton, who served as the 42nd POTUS from 1993 to 2001.

The two-time presidential hopeful shared a photo of herself in the Oval Office alongside current President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama. The picture saw Hillary pointing at the camera with a laugh and was captioned, "Happy Presidents Day! However, it did not include Bill Clinton, her husband of over 46 years.

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On Valentine's Day -- just one day prior to the above post -- Bill Clinton had shared a heartwarming photo of himself with his arm around his wife, captioned, "My Valentine." Hillary responded to her husband with a string of heart emoticons.

Breitbart News referenced the former secretary of state's interview about her hypothetically being president of another planet in 2017. Hillary, during an interview with Now This, imagined leaving Earth for a hypothetical "Earth 2", a planet that faces the same socio-political issues as the actual Earth.

We went to another planet with Hillary, the caption read as host Nico Pitney hurled a series of scenarios at Hillary. People joke about Earth 2, where you are president, he told Clinton, who responded saying she would have full-on diplomatic pressure to confront Earth 2s North Korea. She said that if she was in charge, she would put "as much money as it took into enforcing the laws we already have on guns, and would mandate universal background checks.

An aide attempted to end the interview after she answered a question about the ongoing opioid crisis, but Hillary insisted she wished to continue the discussion. You want one more? Ill be short one more. Because I like being on Earth 2, Clinton said. Pitney then asked her what she would do about Russia.

Hillary said if she "had been president, or on Earth 2, where I am, she would have an independent commission investigate the alleged Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election.

The former secretary of state recently accused Republican senators who didn't vote to convict President Donald J. Trump of being "co-conspirators."

If Senate Republicans fail to convict Donald Trump, it won't be because the facts were with him or his lawyers mounted a competent defense, Trumps former political opponent tweeted on February 10. It will be because the jury includes his co-conspirators.

If Senate Republicans fail to convict Donald Trump, it won't be because the facts were with him or his lawyers mounted a competent defense. It will be because the jury includes his co-conspirators.

Trump's defense lawyer Michael van der Veen told senators on Friday that Hillary could be impeached as a private citizen and barred from running for office in the future under the precedent set by Trump's second impeachment trial. This could happen to the former secretary of state, said van der Veen. It could happen to a lot of people. Thats not the way this is supposed to work.

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio also asked whether Trump's trial would create a new precedent for former federal officials such as Hillary Clinton. Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland responded by saying the hypothetical question had "no bearing on this case" and that "this official was not impeached in office for conduct while in office," without mentioning Hillary by name.

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