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A deluge of rain during the 2017 harvest slashed profits overnight – wheat for milling and barley for malting were downgraded and producers incurred additional costs for drying. Few industries have so much at stake than agriculture, and so much to gain from accurate, timely information. Advances in machine learning to simplify complexity and improve decision making is to be discussed at Agri-Tech East's Pollinator event on February 20 at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge. The event will include industry speakers from After the flood, Fujitsu, Iteris, Kings College London, Microsoft and PA Consulting describing the progress in applied artificial intelligence and looking to where the future is taking us. Speaker John Lord from Iteris explains that combining crop and environmental data with artificial intelligence (AI) can help farmers make key decisions.