Source: Taranis news release
Taranis, the global leader in crop intelligence, announces revolutionary AI advancements in the ag sector with the introduction of its Ag Assistant. A first for agriculture retailers and producers, Ag Assistant is powered by a generative AI model that integrates data sources from various modalities – including images, text and audio – and with a profound understanding of agronomy.
Taranis Ag Assistant will revolutionize the agriculture industry by providing field-specific, detailed, comprehensive insights and actionable recommendations to advisors and growers with unprecedented timeliness and accuracy, introducing an entirely new approach to farm management for the age of AI.
“Taranis has pioneered an AI agent in agriculture that enables and equips the agronomists serving producers,” says Chief Commercial Officer Jason Minton. “Ag Assistant enhances the service retail organizations provide to their growers. Having an instantaneous understanding of the issues and the optimal solution creates efficiencies and opportunities the industry has never seen before.”
Powering Ag Assistant is a GenAI model trained on a wealth of proprietary agronomic data spanning several years of in-season crop intelligence gathered from fields across the continental U.S., in conjunction with additional sources of data such as weather maps, machinery data, university research reports and industry-specific product studies. The scope of this rich training dataset, carefully curated and validated, endows this model with capabilities that are not available in other generic (non-agriculture) models.
According to Gershom Kutliroff, Taranis Chief Technology Officer, “Many factors contribute to the overall health and productivity of a field – weather conditions, the traits of the seed hybrid used, nutrients in the soil, the prevalence of weeds and the likelihood of herbicide-resistant strains, to name a few. It is a formidable task for an agronomist to gather and analyze all of these disparate sources of data to formulate an effective recommendation on how best to treat problems and maximize yields.
“Leveraging many of the most recent advances in generative AI, Ag Assistant is the agronomist’s indispensable tool, retrieving the various data sources, analyzing how they fit together, and presenting the agronomist with a clear picture of what is happening in his fields, as well as the actions to take to remedy problems and maximize the fields’ productivity.”
