The agriculture industry's first generative AI-powered
agronomy engine transforms crop input and farm management decision
making.
WESTFIELD, Ind., July 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.
Agriculture industry's first generative
AI-powered agronomy engine transforms crop input and farm
management decisions.
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."
Taranis enables advisors to identify and address opportunities
to improve productivity in growers' fields by scouting all crop
conditions and threats in a timely, effective manner. Ag Assistant
takes this service to the next level by thoroughly analyzing the
leaf-level data captured by Taranis and contextualizing it with
relevant industry research and current seasonal trends to promptly
generate comprehensive and actionable reports. Provided immediately
following individual scouting missions and on a season-long basis,
Ag Assistant reports will drive product recommendations, nutrient
management and input decisions during the season and leading up to
the next crop cycle.
Minton explains, "As an example, consider a scenario in which Ag
Assistant identifies a widespread specific weed threat, indicating
that the prescribed weed management program did not
work. Rather than an agronomist spending hours and days during
the growing season manually walking and scouting fields, reviewing
seed hybrid information, weather history and forecast, herbicide
label information, identified weed control, etc., Ag Assistant
will immediately generate a detailed, expert-level agronomy report
to the agronomist that analyzes those factors and more to provide a
targeted control recommendation for the specific field and farm in
question."
In an already stressed agriculture financial economy, Taranis'
Ag Assistant enables advisors and growers to address and maximize
productivity and profitability by improving the timeliness,
precision and accuracy with which they can respond to threats,
company CEO Opher Flohr
explains.
"The next revolution for production agriculture efficiency and
performance is here—it is Ag Assistant. A little more than a decade
ago, we watched GPS and autosteer change how the industry
operated," says Taranis CEO, Opher
Flohr. "Today, those technologies aren't considered an
addition; they're necessities in reaching production and
profitability goals. Ag Assistant allows growers to maximize their
profitability by carefully managing every aspect of production in
partnership with their retailers."
About Taranis:
Taranis is the world's leading
AI-powered crop intelligence platform, 100% focused on helping ag
advisors demonstrate value to their growers and build better
relationships through full-service, leaf-level data capture.
Taranis' insights allow them to accelerate decision-making,
simplify management, and improve their bottom line. Since its
founding in 2015, Taranis has worked with the world's top
agricultural retailers and crop protection companies, serving
millions of acres for customers in the
United States, Brazil, and
Europe. Taranis has offices
located in Westfield, Indiana,
Tel Aviv, Israel, and Campinas,
Brazil. To learn more,
visit www.taranis.com.
Media Contact:
Sarah
Rang
Director of Marketing
Taranis
sarah.rang@taranis.com
(317) 804-2031
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