31: Dark Data and Edge Computing Are Reshaping Canadian Farm Strategy

Podcast: The Future Herd · Metaviews Media Management Ltd.

Opublikowano: 2026-06-24

Summary: This episode brings together Canada's sharpest minds at the intersection of AI and agriculture to make a concrete case: the future of Canadian farm competitiveness will be decided not by whether producers adopt AI, but by how intelligently they manage, govern, and deploy the data they already have. Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi introduces the concept of 'dark data'—the vast archive of unused research and field observations sitting dormant in breeding programs and farm records—arguing it represents an untapped foundation for training custom agricultural AI models. Donald Killorn reveals that choosing between cloud-scale processing and...