AI is changing how many industries operate on a day-to-day basis, and agriculture is no exception. However, it's not a silver bullet to answer all of the industry's problems. W. Edwin Harris, Centre for Agriculture Data Science, Harper Adams University, United Kingdom, discusses the challenges of AI in the agriculture industry in this episode.

Not all college students have an easy path to a successful agricultural and biological engineering career. Purdue's Rising Scholars Program seeks to help first-generation college students with adjusting to and succeeding in college life while pursuing a degree in a STEM field.

In this episode, hear from Leon Schumacher, Department Chair, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, North Dakota State University, as he discusses the department's celebration of a century in academia.

Meet the man behind the gavel--newly installed ASABE President, Doug Otto. Doug shares his ASABE history, his goals for his presidency, and discusses the future of ag engineering.

In this episode, Michael Ngadi, Professor, McGill University, discusses how developing countries can take their destinies into their own hands to improve and innovate in their agricultural and food production systems. By doing so, these countries will better prepare themselves for climate change impacts and make their own countries more independent, while building local economies.

For more information about ASABE's initiative, the Alliance for Modernizing African Agrifood Systems, visit AMAA (asabe.org).

Our 30th episode features Gerry Rehkulger, Emeritus Professor, Department of Biological & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rehkugler embarked on a project to document all of the tower silos in his county in upstate New York, a former hotbed for dairy farming. Rehkugler also discusses the agricultural engineering achievements behind different types of feed storage for dairy farms.

In this episode, hear from Alex Thomasson, Professor & Department Head, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, as he discusses his team's efforts to build a robotic cotton harvester, how the robot picks cotton without damaging it, and the benefits of picking cotton with a robot.

In this episode, hear from Andres Ferreyra, Communications Manager & CS Business Partner for Bayer, and Brent Kemp, President & CEO of AgGateway. Both of these guests serve on the new ISO committee that is creating standards for food and ag systems data. Learn more about the unified data reference architecture in the agri-food value chain, the impact of data on smart farming, agrisemantics and more.

In this episode, John Cundiff, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech University, discusses three technologies for hauling feedstocks to regional biorefineries. These technologies could revolutionize how biorefineries source their materials and save on costs.

It's not every day that a university program celebrates its centennial. The Agricultural & Biological Engineering program at the University of Florida has been serving students for 100 years. In this episode, Katy Migliaccio, Program Chair & Professor, shares highlights from a century of agricultural engineering excellence.