Future agronomy advisors to be powered by AI

Kristen Sindelar
May 17, 2024
May 17, 2024

AI artificial intelligence agriculture — Companies and public organizations are just now beginning to embed the technology into new products or services. For example the AI-Farms project at the University of Illinois has trained a large-language model to answer agricultural crop questions.
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Kristen Sindelar

How much water does corn need per week when tasseling?

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FBN Norm 2 — Norm is a new artificial intelligence chatbot from Farmers Business Network (FBN) that is specifically tailored toward agronomic questions. FBN launched Norm, Tuesday, April 18.
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Here is WB4727 from Bayer WestBred.
“The winter wheat that WB4727 and WB4619 are looking to replace is Keldin, which has been WestBred’s number one winter wheat in Montana for several years now. We are really excited about these new varieties and they have shown they can improve on Keldin in a broad range of scenarios,” saidErik Fevold, Montana regional business representative for Bayer’s WestBred, who

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Reporter Kristen Sindelar has loved agriculture her entire life, coming from a diversified farm with three generations working side-by-side in northeastern Nebraska. Reach her at Kristen.Sindelar@midwestmessenger.com.