Center for Digital Agriculture
The Center for Digital Agriculture celebrated the 2026 Champaign-Urbana AgTech Week by hosting two robust events centered around artificial intelligence in agriculture, the Precision & Digital Agriculture Hackathon and the annual CDA Conference. This article recaps and highlights these events.
As a professor of agricultural economics and CDA faculty affiliate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the program leader of the Data-Intensive Farm Management (DIFM) project, Dr. David Bullock has spent years leveraging precision agriculture to develop the DIFM initiative. In this article by ODSR, Bullock shares how his work combines on-farm experiments, data…
CDA Affiliate and Illinois Prof. Anthony Studer collaborated with Riggs Beer Company to create Illini SuperPop, a naturally savory popcorn with subtle nutty notes and a crisp crunch.
CDA Co-Scientific Director and Illinois Crop Sciences Prof. Matt Hudson is the senior author in this study that developed the first pangenome for soybean cyst nematode (SCN). SCN are the biggest pest and threat to soybeans. Learn more about this multi-institutional effort.
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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.
