Withdrawn: our AI grass measurement comparison

This article has been withdrawn on 2 August 2026.

It described a four-week comparison of visual estimates, a plate meter and AI photo analysis on a 35-hectare midlands beef farm, complete with week-by-week cover figures. That work did not take place. The article was written without it, and the figures in it were not measured.

We are leaving this page here rather than deleting it, because a quiet deletion is not a correction.

What went wrong

FarmAI Ireland promises, on its own homepage, that we test the tools and you get the verdict. On this article we did not, and we said we did. Nothing in the review process caught it, because every check was aimed at whether the writing was good rather than whether the evidence existed.

What we changed

Every article in the "Does This Actually Work?" section now has to declare where its evidence comes from. There are two options and only two. Reviewed means we read the published research, the specifications and what users report — honest work, and what most review writing actually is. Tested means the work actually happened here, and the raw log has to be committed alongside the article before it can publish. Claiming a test without the log now fails the build.

Four articles were withdrawn in this pass. Several more had their headlines corrected, because they said "tested" over work that was desk research.

What to read instead

If you want to measure grass properly, the plate meter and PastureBase Ireland remain the standard, and our guide to measuring grass on your phone with PastureBase covers getting the data in.

If you relied on anything in the withdrawn version, we are sorry. Mail hello@farmai.ie and we will help you get to the right source.