CropWizard is an interactive question-answering and decision-support service powered by generative AI designed for agricultural professionals in the U.S. It consults an extensive knowledge base of agricultural technical documents to answer crop-related inquiries. CropWizard can accept text and image prompts and provides textual responses. Led by CDA, AI AgriBench offers a trusted framework to evaluate AI-driven chatbots and crop advisory services, supporting confidence and transparency in digital tools used by farmers and agronomy professionals. This paper features the benefits of investment in AI for Agriculture Research. The paper was assembled as a collaborative effort between all 5 USDA-NIFA National AI for Agriculture Institutes.




Ag advisor at your fingertips!
The Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability Institute will serve as a nexus for multidisciplinary research teams that advance foundational AI and use these advances to address important challenges facing world agriculture. It will put strong emphasis on technologies that impact production practices, on developing a diverse technically skilled workforce in digital agriculture, and on supporting women and minority farmers.
Our research covers:
- Autonomous farming,
- Efficiency for livestock operations
- Environmental resilience,
- Soil health
- Technology adoption
Read more about our thrusts to learn how we’re advancing artificial intelligence in agriculture.
The AIFARMS Institute project is led by the Center for Digital Agriculture.
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AIFARMS Associate Director Madhu Khanna Named 2025 AAAS Fellow
Madhu Khanna, Director of iSEE, has been named a 2025 AAAS Fellow for her contributions to social and economic sciences. Her work at AIFARMS advances understanding of how policy and economics shape adoption of sustainable, AI-driven agricultural technologies.

ChatGPT for farmers? Illinois research project centers around CropWizard
AIFARMS PI Vikram Adve sits down with Our Quad Cities to discuss CropWizard, the research project exploring generative AI for agricultural decision making and optimization.
CropGPT?: Farmers now have their own AI chatbot
KWQC interviews AIFARMS PI Vikram Adve about CropWizard and how farmers can ask the chatbot questions about pests, diseases, or crop management and receive research-based answers.
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The Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability (AIFARMS) Institute is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation.