AI farm monitoring: presentation to faculty

Presentation to the Agronomy faculty at Uniube (Uberaba, Brazil) at the start of the second semester of 2026, structured around ten segments on agriculture and the same cost-driven thread. The opening data matches the student class: urea rising from ~US$472/t to over US$850/t in two months, the World Bank's fertilizer index at its highest level since October 2022, and Brazil importing about 93% of the fertilizer it uses.

The presentation also covers that U.S. soybean and corn are in their fourth consecutive year of per-acre losses, that Brazilian rural delinquency is the highest since 2011, and that AI adoption in agriculture is only 1.4% — the lowest of any economic sector. Segment 9, aimed at faculty, argues that AI is the first technology that favors those with more experience and context rather than faster reflexes.

It closes with the same opportunity cited in the student class — rising coffee consumption in Asia, already backed by a signed contract with Brazil and a supply chain that multiplies value by 97 times — and presents the AI Agro station operating at Uniube as a case study in field measurement.