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Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026

National/International

U.S. National Science Foundation Launches AI-ENGAGE Awards to Advance AI in Agriculture
02/17/26 iGrow News
Kansas State University: Implementation of “Smart Scout,” a computer vision system to estimate soybean yield and detect crop lodging.

Local

'A silent symphony’ | How Juergen Richt conducts a team tackling the world’s emerging animal diseases
02/17/26 Manhattan Mercury
Over the last two decades, Richt has built his laboratory at Kansas State University into a research machine that tackles emerging diseases hiding in rainforests, jungles and deserts in some of the world’s most remote pockets, before they become global threats.