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YORKTON A Saskatchewan company has secured $20 million in equity and grant funding to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology that will allow for more precise application of herbicides. Regina-based Precision AI is looking to build solutions for producers when it comes to protecting crops with herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. The drone-based solution would enable precise application to individual weeds, only spraying chemicals where they are needed. We believe that the future of agriculture can be plant level precision and plant level decisions, said Warren Bills, agronomy and commercial development lead at Precision AI. Bills said yielding application from the whole crop to only targeted areas would not only cut down on the amount of chemicals used on a crop, but also on costs for producers. ....