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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 National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign community. While Illinois

Satellites and Drones Are Unlocking Benefits ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’ in Michigan
The New York Times interviewed AIFARMS’ Bruno Basso on how technology is helping farmers use land and fertilizer more strategically.
Sorghum Could Help Feed the World — if we Can Unlock its Genetic Code
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.

Join CDA and AIFARMS at SRI 2025 in Chicago!
Attending SRI 2025? Check out this list of CDA/AIFARMS-related activities happening at SRI 2025.
Upcoming Events
This calendar also includes various events from collaborating and partner institutions.
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.