GEMS BLOG
Illustration of gears one of which is planet earth
Mar 11, 2026

Pooling Ideas on Public-Private Agri-Food R&D and Innovation Possibilities: A World Food Prize Panel

A map showing part of North America where sensing nodes were deployed to capture WinterTurf data
Jun 17, 2025
WinterTurf hackathon and 2024–2025 sensing update

As the WinterTurf 2024–2025 data collection season comes to a close, the WinterTurf sensing nodes are being removed to make way for spring maintena

cassava root being dug up by hand
Aug 30, 2024
Breeding Better Cassava for Climate Resilience
Cassava, a root crop, is a critical staple food crop planted on 32 million acres worldwide.
Abstract map of the word in blue tones
Apr 12, 2024
The GEMS Informatics Grid Goes Open Source
We are delighted to announce that we have just released the GEMS Grid code library, where the code is under the open source Apache 2.0 license.
person-use-smartphone-laptop-researching
Mar 22, 2024
Research Working Towards Big Data Analysis
Researchers that are transitioning from doing analysis locally on their laptop to remote or large scale analysis often fall into a few common traps.
Snapshot of water quality for some Minnesota lakes
Oct 27, 2023
Water Resources and Sensing Conference Session
Assessing BMP Effectiveness for Water Quality Outcomes with Remote Sensing.
A wheat field on a sunny day
Aug 04, 2023
A Look at Wheat Biodiversity & Genetic Gain
The United States and Canada are both major wheat producers, with total harvested areas in 2021 respectively ranked 4th and 7th globally (FAOSTAT, 2023).
A screenshot of the Market Segmentation Tool dashboard showing the “segment the market” functionality for the output market orientation variable.
Jul 26, 2023
Agri-Food Market Intelligence Tool for Malawi
We began working on a project in partnership with the Centre for Agricultural Transformation to accelerate the transformation of Malawian agricultural production.
Photo collage of eight GEMS Sensing full-stack weather station deployments throughout Malawi
Jul 26, 2023
Minnesota to Malawi: Agricultural Connections
GEMS Sensing has partnered with the Centre for Agricultural Transformation (CAT) in Malawi to pilot the local deployment of GEMS research-grade weather stations and its associated data visualization and sharing tool.