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Tournesol Farms pig from the 2026 pork pre-order batch

Practical AI for the Farm, Part 2: Online Pork Pre-Orders at Tournesol Farms

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Our latest project for Tournesol Farms began with four pigs headed to a USDA-inspected processor and a long list of decisions. It ended with cut sheets, inventory planning, customer order documents, and a live pork pre-order system built around the way the farm actually operates. This is a companion to our earlier ChickID project with […]

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How AI Helps Me Farm (While I Build Software in the Car)

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Today I was driving to pick up farm equipment and realized: I’m building a production AI system from the car. Not email. Not texting. Actual system design. Real decisions. Real progress. By voice, hands-free, while watching the road. This isn’t “working on a laptop in traffic.” I’m talking to AI the same way I’d talk

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When AI Says “No” (But Really Means “Not Configured Yet”)

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A Microsoft Teams Copilot Case Study Enterprise AI systems rarely fail because the models aren’t smart enough. They fail because they’re sloppy about what they know, what they don’t know, and under what conditions they can act. This is a story about that gap. In a Microsoft Teams meeting chat, I asked a simple operational

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