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’ 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 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
The New York Times interviewed AIFARMS’ Bruno Basso on how technology is helping farmers use land and fertilizer more strategically.
Check out this article from Seed World US featuring AIFARMS PI Alex Lipka and graduate student Talissa Floriani and their work on exploring the potential of sorghum to help address global food security challenges.
Attending SRI 2025? Check out this list of CDA/AIFARMS-related activities happening at SRI 2025.
Researchers, policymakers, and Capitol Hill staff gathered in Washington to explore innovations powered by long-term federal investment. AIFARMS leaders showcased CropWizard, the generative AI tool that supports agricultural decision-making using multimodal data and LLM-powered systems.
CDA Science Co-Director and AIFARMS PI Vikram Adve shares his insights and expertise on AI for agriculture alongside fellow experts in this USA Today article.
In collaboration with Bayer Crop Science, KissanAI, and the Extension Foundation, AI AgriBench aims to build confidence in question-answering systems for digital crop production.
In this article, we recap the visit and highlight three innovations that represent the exciting work taking place at CDA and AIFARMS.
U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski and the ITI Institute joined top researchers and policymakers to see how AI is reshaping agriculture to address key challenges in food security, sustainability, and workforce development.
A new study, led by AIFARMS affiliates, looks at the types of farmers and fields more likely to adopt weeding robots and at what stage of resistance development.
This funded project focuses on advancing sustainable agriculture, integrating cutting-edge technologies, providing students with hands-on training for job success, and fostering local agribusiness development.
Faculty Affiliate Shadi Atallah shared his expertise and insights on the adoption and economics of weeding robots to address herbicide resistance in this article by Brownfield.
Agribusiness players are using generative AI to find more and better data to improve yields and manage natural resources. AIFARMS PI Vikram Adve lends his expertise on AI in agriculture in this editorial.
The National Academy of Engineering has invited 76 highly accomplished early-career researchers, including AIFARMS affiliate Yuxiong Wang, to participate in The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in September.
Forbes mentions AIFARMS in an article highlighting the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a global leader in artificial intelligence.
AIFARMS Director and PI, Vikram Adve, was featured in the June edition of World Grain magazine to share insights on AI in agriculture and discuss potential opportunities for AI in the grain industry.
AIFARMS’ Vikram Adve, Jessica Wedow, and Heather Hampton-Knodle were featured panelists at the Climate Tech Convening Event in May 2024.
AIFARMS Program Officer Steve Thomson provided input for this BBC article covering how American farmers are rapidly ploughing ahead with adopting AI in their agricultural practices.
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.
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