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The AI telling farmers when to harvest - BBC
Publisher description: Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?
NewsAPI | Sep 30, 2026 | BBC News
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"You need to know more than just when your fruit is going to be ripe. AI identifies buds, flowers or fruit in that footage. "Right now, Vivid is telling us crop estimates and harvest dates," says Carter. For other fruit, such as berries, you might only have a few days. "If a strawberry crop is on, you have to harvest it – otherwise your entire crop gets diseased very, very quickly," says Raymond Martin, co-founder and chief operating officer of FruitCast, a UK company that offers harvest forecasts to fruit growers here.
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