Meet the fixer: This farmer uses AI for efficiency.

Grist
By Grist staffApr 5, 2017, 6:00 am72 pts
As a kid, Irving Fain started small neighborhood businesses (snow shoveling, leaf raking). He later tapped that entrepreneurial spirit to launch CrowdTwist, a marketing startup. Now, Fain wants to bring cooler technology to agriculture. Fain’s company, Bowery Farming, uses artificial intelligence to…

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