Center for Digital Agriculture

$3.9M USDA NIFA Grant Funds ‘Farm of the Future’ Project

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that it is funding a new collaboration between CDA and iSEE at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that will create an integrated farm of the future in the U.S. Midwest.

AI Foundry for Agricultural Applications Summer School

AIFARMS is hosting an AI Foundry for Agricultural Applications Summer School from July 11-16th. Summer school is for Graduate students and is free. Register by July 1.

CDA Affiliates Featured in WIRED

CDA Affiliates and AIFARMS Thrust leads, Dr. Girish Chowdhary and Dr. Madhu Khanna were featured in WIRED for their work in 'Precision Agriculture'

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At the Center for Digital Agriculture at the University of Illinois, 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.