Center for Digital Agriculture
CDA Executive Director John Reid received the prestigious 2026 Cyrus Hall McCormick-Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal awarded by ASABE. Read more in this feature story by the UI College of ACES.
CDA Executive Director John Reid discusses the invention of the steel plow in this special summer issue of The Bridge, the quarterly publication of the National Academy of Engineering!
John Reid reflects on his journey from rural Virginia to pioneering autonomous agricultural systems and advancing innovation at John Deere after receiving the 2026 Cyrus Hall McCormick–Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal.
The PigLife data set, developed under AIFARMS, is a first-of-its-kind benchmark made to train computer vision (CV) systems on pig tracking, furnishing the agricultural industry with accessible and revolutionary optimization.
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.
