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Technology & AIAug 27, 2026

Profit based evaluation of machine learning for nitrogen recommendations in winter wheat

Nitrogen rates for winter wheat are set before the season, under unknown prices and weather.

Nitrogen rates for winter wheat are set before the season, under unknown prices and weather. The standard UK advice does not respond to prices, yet recent price swings moved the most profitable rate by tens of kilograms per hectare. Machine learning is often proposed as the fix.…

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