Center for Digital Agriculture

Introducing New Generative AI Benchmarking Consortium – AI AgriBench!
Introducing AI AgriBench – new benchmarking consortium for Generative AI

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.

Register for AI Foundry Short Course by May 31
Register for AI Foundry Short Course by May 28

This week-long interactive online course will increase competency in solving agricultural issues with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision.

NTU CIA – CDA UIUC Joint Seminar Series
Global Perspectives on Digital/Smart Agriculture Seminar Series

In collaboration with National Taiwan University, CDA is hosting a free joint seminar series focused on "Global Perspectives on Digital/Smart Agriculture" that spans March and April.

CropWizard
Cropwizard – Ag advisor at your fingertips

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.

Master's Degree in Engineering with Concentration in Digital Agriculture
Become a Digital Agriculture expert

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.

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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.

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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.