Location: Potato, Pulse and Small Grains Quality Research
Project Number: 0500-00119-001-001-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Mar 30, 2026
End Date: Mar 29, 2030
Objective:
The overarching goal of this collaboration is to build an integrated digital agriculture pipeline that translates stakeholder-defined priorities into deployable, vision-based AI tools for regionally important crops, and establish a national proving ground network to enable standardized, data-driven evaluation and benchmarking of agricultural technologies.
Objective 1. Establish Stakeholder-Driven Phenotyping Priorities
Objective 2. Generate Foundational Digital Assets for Priority Cropping Systems
Objective 3. Develop and Validate Computer Vision Models
Objective 4. Deploy Models to Support Research and Field Applications
Objective 5. Establish and Support the National Agricultural Proving Ground Network (NPG-Ag)
Approach:
This effort will implement a coordinated, multi-year strategy that integrates stakeholder engagement, data generation, model development, deployment, and validation into a unified digital agriculture pipeline.