Voting will end on September 30, 2022, and the winner of the US $2,000 scholarship will be announced in early October.
The top three Farms.com Precision Agriculture Scholarship entries are:
HUDSON, OWEN— University of Florida
Scholarship Topic: Predictive genomics and high throughput plant phenotyping for the breeding of maize lines with a resistance to fusarium ear rot.
Watch Owen Hudson's Scholarship Entry
PERRON, NOE— University of Florida
Scholarship Topic: Genetic engineering to transfer genes from plants like cacti and pineapples (which don’t require much water to survive) to crops susceptible to failure from drought (corn).
Watch Noe Perron's Scholarship Entry
MARTINEZ, ENRIQUE PENA — North Carolina State University
Scholarship Topic: Incorporating high throughput imaging and tracking system prior to dumping and sorting sweet potatoes to facilitate tracing and help establish how shape and size correlate to their growing environment in the farm field.
Watch Enrique Pena Martinez's Scholarship Entry
The U.S. 2022 Farms.com Precision Agriculture Scholarship winner will present their winning entry in detail during a webinar at the beginning of November.
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