This consortium brings together deep technical expertise in both AI and agronomy across leading academic and industry groups to address the challenges posed by these new systems. 

The public consortium, led by the CropWizard project within CDA, is creating and overseeing the benchmarking effort. Recent efforts have led to open source systems like CropWizard and proprietary commercial systems, all of which are designed for answering technical questions about agronomy for farmers, agronomists, scientists, and other agriculture professionals. Extensive data sets and software tools within these organizations provide the foundation for building reliable, automated evaluation pipelines based on expert-validated ground truth answers.

If you are interested in joining a mailing list to be informed about the consortium’s plans or becoming a contributing consortium member, please go to https://go.illinois.edu/aiagribench-form to sign up.