Practical AI in agriculture, written down.

A Grower's Field Guide to AI, Sensors and Robotics — what to adopt, what to skip, and what it pays back in viticulture

Precision viticulture is sold hard and explained badly. This field guide goes through the tools a grower is actually offered — sensors, imagery, variable-rate equipment, robotics — and asks the only question that matters: what does it pay back, and over how many seasons?

Written for growers and the people who advise them. No vendor language, and no assumption that newer is better.

What's inside

1. What precision viticulture actually promises
2. Sensors in the vineyard, and what they can and cannot see
3. Imagery: satellite, drone and on-machine
4. Variable-rate application, and when the maths works
5. Robotics and automation on a real block
6. Disease and pest models
7. What to adopt first, and what to skip
8. Working out payback for your own vineyard

ISBN 979-8194779062

A practical guide to imaging and automation in vegetable seed — from production field to certificate

Seed quality control is one of the places where machine vision has genuinely earned its keep — purity, vigour, health and germination assessment all now have automated counterparts.

This guide follows a seed lot from the production field to the certificate, covering what can be measured automatically at each step, how reliable it is, and where a trained human eye is still required.

What's inside

1. What quality control means in vegetable seed
2. From production field to certificate: the chain
3. Imaging systems and what they measure
4. Purity and varietal identity
5. Germination and vigour testing
6. Seed health and pathogen detection
7. Automation, throughput and error
8. Standards, certification and what auditors expect

ISBN 979-8170857548

A Guide for Growing Minds

Vertical farming attracts more excitement than scrutiny. This short book explains how controlled-environment agriculture actually works, what it is genuinely good at, and where the economics stop making sense.

Written for students, curious growers and anyone trying to separate the technology from the pitch.

What's inside

1. What vertical farming is, and is not
2. Light, water and nutrients in a controlled environment
3. Which crops suit it, and which never will
4. Energy: the number that decides everything
5. Automation and monitoring
6. The economics, honestly
7. Where it fits in a wider food system

ISBN 979-8335398282