Introducing AI AgriBench
On March 6, 2025, the Center for Digital Agriculture (CDA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) announced a new consortium, AI AgriBench.
AI AgriBench will evaluate and build confidence in AI-driven question-answering systems supporting farmers, agronomists, industry, and the broader agriculture community.
The goal of the new public consortium is to provide farmers, policymakers, and the public with trustworthy mechanisms to evaluate and achieve high confidence in the new generation of digital agronomy tools emerging worldwide, ensuring these services deliver on their promise of valuable and accurate technical information to farmers and Ag professionals everywhere.
Led by the CropWizard project within CDA, the consortium will create and oversee the benchmarking effort. The consortium is open to any organizations interested in contributing their expertise to support the creation, monitoring, and long-term maintenance of this benchmarking effort.
The consortium’s founding members include UIUC, Bayer Crop Science, KissanAI, and the Extension Foundation.
Learn more about AI AgriBench on the CDA website, including how to become a contributing member.
