{
  "id": 9574279,
  "title": "Oracle and Wild Bio partner to advance AI-powered agriculture",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/oracle-and-wild-bio-partner-to-advance-ai-powered-agriculture",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-24T10:29:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Silicon Republic",
    "slug": "silicon-republic",
    "url": "https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/oracle-wild-bio-form-partnership-advance-ai-powered-agriculture-research"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Oxford-based Wild Bio, a spin-off of Oxford University, has teamed up with technology giant Oracle to enhance agricultural resilience and crop-based carbon sequestration through AI. The collaboration comes as both entities aim to tackle the challenges of crop productivity under environmental stress and develop crop varieties that can absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.\n\nWild Bio, founded in 2021 by Dr Ross Hendron and Prof Steve Kelly, specializes in developing crop genetics using evolutionary solutions to modern crop problems. They use AI to address these issues by capturing field data, integrating it into a cloud environment, and analyzing the datasets with AI to inform future research.\n\nOracle's technology will be crucial in analyzing real-time data from field trials, such as soil moisture, plant performance, and environmental conditions. This will create an auditable, field-level measurement system for carbon absorption by the studied crops, which will then guide and power Wild Bio's research.\n\nClay Magouyrk, Oracle's CEO, expressed his belief in AI's potential to learn from millions of years of plant evolution and identify traits for improved crop performance. Kelly, Wild Bio's chief scientific officer, emphasized the significance of combining AI with deep scientific expertise to turn new ideas into practical solutions that could improve lives globally.\n\nThe partnership aligns with Oracle's sustainability strategy, including its commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. In July, Wild Bio acquired wheat breeding business F1 Seed, aiming to become a fully integrated, end-to-end UK seed company capable of designing, breeding, and delivering new wheat varieties for growers.",
  "summary": "The collaboration aims to advance agricultural resilience and crop-based carbon removal using AI technologies. Read more: Oracle and Wild Bio partner to advance AI-powered agriculture",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}