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. 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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AIFARMS Researchers Showcase Groundbreaking AgTech and AI Innovations
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.

New Illinois Study Explores Adoption of Robotic Weeding to Fight Superweeds
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.

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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.