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.






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.
We’re hosting our annual conference on March 9, 2026, at the iHotel and Illinois Conference Center. This year's theme focuses on "Generative AI in Agriculture." We are excited to have Brian Lutz, VP of Agricultural Solutions from Corteva Agriscience as our keynote speaker!
The U of I offers the first 100% online Master’s Degree in Engineering and professional certificates programs in Digital Ag.
These programs are an interdisciplinary effort between CDA, College of ACES, and The Grainger College of Engineering.
In collaboration with National Taiwan University, CDA is hosted a free joint seminar series focused on "Global Perspectives on Digital/Smart Agriculture." All recordings are now available for viewing!
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.
The CDA REU program provides undergrads opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects over the summer at UIUC. This summer our students learn about robotics, biotechnology, animal science and more.
CROPPS showcases closed loop fertigation system controlled by the plants themselves. Read more about this week-long sprint from Cornell Research & Innovation.
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.
The Center for Digital Agriculture (CDA) was honored to participate in the 2025 Farm Progress Show this August. Hosted in Decatur, Ill., farmers, growers, researchers,.
We’re helping researchers, educators, farmers, and industries keep pace with the ways technology is transforming how we feed and support a growing global population.
We’re researching everything from the nature of the data itself—its collection, storage, transmission, and analysis—to how the data might be used to optimize areas from precision agriculture to food manufacturing to water use and treatment.