Agriculture & Food Systems Weekly AI News
December 8 - December 16, 2025This weekly update brings news of how artificial intelligence agents are changing farming worldwide. An agent is a computer system that can make decisions and take action without a person telling it what to do every single time.
Abu Dhabi made big news by opening a new AI Agriculture Hub on December 10, 2025. This special center brings together the smartest AI workers and farm scientists from around the world. The hub created something called AgriLLM, which stands for a type of artificial intelligence that can understand and speak many languages. This means farmers in different countries can talk to the AI in their own language and get advice about farming. The system gives real-time information about when to plant, what the weather will be, and how to manage water on their farms.
Working together with experts from the United Nations and the Gates Foundation, the AI Hub is creating tools that help farmers face big problems like droughts and floods. Scientists are also using AI Genebank technology to find special crop seeds that can survive in bad weather. This is important because farming is getting harder because of climate change around the world.
In the United States, a company called CNH that makes farm equipment announced their plans for agentic AI. Agentic AI means the system works like a team of smart workers making decisions on the farm. CNH's CEO, Gerrit Marx, explained that soon farms will have artificial intelligence acting like farm advisors. These AI agents will look at all the information about seeds, fertilizers, equipment, and weather, then tell farmers exactly what to do to grow better crops.
CNH already tested several AI systems with success. Their AI-powered spraying technology uses cameras to see the difference between weeds and crops. When the AI finds weeds, it sprays only that spot, not the whole field. Farmers using this technology use 80% less plant poison while growing just as much food.
In Pakistan, a research team created something brand new called a multi-agent system. Multi-agent means many AI workers team up to solve problems together. This system uses advanced mathematics and cloud computers to help farmers. When scientists tested it, they found amazing results. The technology increased crop production by 35 percent compared to the old way of farming. Even better, farmers earned 30% more money. If this system gets used by many farms, scientists say it could help 5 to 10 percent of poor families escape poverty each year.
In Florida, the University of Florida started building a massive AI research facility. The building is 40,000 square feet, which is as big as seven football fields. Scientists there will create artificial intelligence tools specifically designed for the problems Florida farmers face. The researchers talked to real farmers first to understand what they need most. This approach helps make sure the AI tools actually help farmers instead of just being interesting science projects. The facility should be finished in early 2027.
In the Nordic region, which includes countries like Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, farmers are using AI with special sensors and cameras to fight weeds. These agentic systems automatically detect weeds and tell spraying equipment to apply plant poison only where needed. This saves money for farmers, grows bigger crops, and protects the environment by using less dangerous chemicals.
All these stories show that AI agents are not a future dream. They are working on real farms right now, helping farmers grow more food while spending less money and protecting the planet. The agentic AI revolution in farming is happening today.