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.




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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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Building Trust in AI Agronomy Through Transparent Benchmarking
Led by the Center for Digital Agriculture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 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.
AIFARMS Benchmark Papers on MIRAGE and AgMMU Accepted to NeurIPS 2025
AIFARMS’ MIRAGE and AgMMU datasets, accepted to NeurIPS 2025, advance agricultural AI through real-world user expert data. AgMMU targets factual and visual understanding, while MIRAGE enables multimodal, expert-level reasoning, together setting new benchmarks for agricultural decision-making and evaluation.
CropWizard: Growing from Illinois Chat to Cultivate AI for Agriculture
CropWizard is one of the first significant research applications built entirely on the Illinois Chat platform, a new campus-developed artificial intelligence software tool by the
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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.