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While great strides have been made, he said more work must be done.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Transformative innovation is needed,\u0026rdquo; said McMurray, who is also associate director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. \u0026ldquo;Transformative innovation moves beyond just improving existing methods and processes to totally re-thinking systems development by creating entirely new systems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe highlighted some of the work Georgia Tech is doing in conjunction with the University of Georgia to monitor crop health using autonomous systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor example, the institutions are developing ways for unmanned ground vehicles to work in conjunction with unmanned aerial vehicles to enable earlier detection of infected trees and plants and to identify the source of the problem so there can be more targeted intervention to prevent crop losses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead McMurray\u0026rsquo;s complete testimony \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.agriculture.senate.gov\/hearings\/agricultural-research-perspectives-on-past-and-future-successes-for-the-2018-farm-bill\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGary McMurray testified before\u0026nbsp;the Senate Committee on Agricultural, Nutrition and Forestry Thursday.\u0026nbsp; McMurray leads the Food Processing Technology Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GTRI\u2019s Gary McMurray spoke about the 2018 Farm Bill, agricultural research before a Senate committee. 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