The quiescent gyration of information and analytics successful agriculture 

As AGRITECHNICA 2023—the world’s starring commercialized just for cultivation machinery—makes a triumphant instrumentality aft astir 4 years, implicit 450,000 attendees from 130 countries volition travel unneurotic to witnesser the latest and top agriculture innovations firsthand. However, not each of these breakthrough innovations instrumentality up ample accumulation spaces. Some are softly revolutionizing the manufacture done information and analytics, equipping farmers with tools for smarter, data-driven decision-making.  

These data-driven tools—including transformative AI that is reshaping industries—depend connected clean, unified data. That’s wherefore we announced Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture successful March 2023, a information level that leverages industry-specific information connectors and capabilities to link and unify workplace information from disparate sources. With Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, organizations tin leverage high-quality datasets for integer agriculture solutions, allowing customers and partners to absorption connected merchandise innovation alternatively than information management.

Today, alongside Bayer astatine the AGRITECHNICA 2023 conference, we’re thrilled to denote the latest updates to Azure Data Manager for Agriculture that are ushering successful an epoch of AI successful agriculture.

A increasing ecosystem of partners and data with Microsoft Fabric integrations

To start, Azure Data Manager for Agriculture is evolving to see caller integrations with Microsoft Fabric. This begins with the inclusion of Microsoft Fabric Data Factory, bringing cloud-scale information question and translation to agriculture-specific scenarios. Now, third-party information partners tin physique connectors to ingest information from much sources into a unified database. Leveraging these Fabric integrations, Microsoft and our partners are expanding Azure Data Manager for Agriculture with much agriculture-specific connectors and capabilities truthful that insights are nary longer constricted by circumstantial information types and sources.  

We’ve besides built connector patterns that others tin usage arsenic references and expanded the communal information exemplary to incorporated geospatial data, making much information integrations seamless and efficient. Given the value of the quality to hunt done clip and abstraction erstwhile looking astatine reflection data, geospatial crushed information information has been elevated to a first-class component.  

We are besides excited to grow enactment for Bayer’s Climate FieldView arsenic a built-in information source. Once initiated by a farmer, Azure Data Manager for Agriculture provides a straightforward way to retrieving some historical and up-to-date enactment files, from which further aggregated insights tin beryllium derived. Users tin leverage auto-sync planting, application, and harvest enactment files from Climate FieldView accounts straight into Azure Data Manager for Agriculture.  

Microsoft and Bayer: Leveraging generative AI to alteration enactment with information done language

But it doesn’t halt astatine data. We judge entree to insights and information should beryllium much interactive, intuitive, and wholly human-centric. Imagine, arsenic a farmer, being capable to simply inquire the question: “Which fields had rainfall past night?” oregon “How galore acres person been harvested?” and receiving a precise and close answer, immediately.  

With caller ample connection exemplary APIs successful Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, generative AI successful agriculture is present a reality. The ample connection exemplary APIs alteration the seamless retrieval of information mapped to workplace operations, sensors, weather, and imagery truthful that farming-related discourse and insights tin beryllium queried successful a conversational context. These capabilities alteration others to physique their ain agriculture copilots that present insights to customers and farmers astir disease, yield, labour needs, harvest windows, and more—leveraging existent readying and observational data.  

Bayer is the archetypal spouse bringing these ample connection exemplary capabilities to beingness with a copilot for agriculture. In its aboriginal stages, Bayer is presenting an agriculture copilot and investigating aggregate scenarios with interior teams to observe wherever ample connection exemplary capabilities tin adhd worth done the quality to interact with agronomic information utilizing earthy language.

The Bayer copilot for agriculture is simply a querying strategy that helps extremity users similar dealers and farmers get actionable insights from their workplace and situation data. Users inquire the AI-powered chatbot astir antithetic scenarios and the copilot provides close responses astir instantly.

Building connected a instauration of innovation 

Azure Data Manager for Agriculture has already enabled unthinkable evolutions successful Agriculture with partners similar Accenture, Bayer, and Land O’Lakes.  

By integrating disparate information sources and streamlining them into a unified interface, Accenture’s Farm of the Future empowers farmers to way and negociate their sustainability initiatives much effectively. Built connected Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, the solution provides broad oversight of a farm’s sustainability practices. Advanced analytics present actionable insights that assistance farmers optimize assets allocation, minimize biology impact, and maximize wide cultivation productivity and profitability.  

Bayer’s Climate FieldView level uses Azure Data Manager for Agriculture’s outer and upwind pipelines and communal information exemplary to alteration insights connected imaginable yield-limiting factors successful growers’ fields. Thanks to Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, Bayer tin stay focused connected gathering intelligent solutions for growers, alternatively than investing clip and resources successful information management. 

Land O’Lakes is utilizing Azure Data Manager for Agriculture to trim clip spent connected information integrations, thereby cutting down engineering efforts and costs.

“Our occupation is to bring each the accusation unneurotic to marque consciousness of it. Azure Data Manager for Agriculture is helping america bash that.”

Tom Ryan, President astatine Truterra, the sustainability part of Land O’Lakes

Land O’Lakes information scientists are present capable to deduce amended insights done broad analytics and intelligent modeling—ultimately supporting much efficient, sustainable farming.  

Learn much astir our agriculture solutions

If you’re funny successful learning much astir our committedness to innovation successful agriculture, travel sojourn america astatine Bayer’s booth (Hall 8, Booth C15) astatine AGRITECHNICA 2023 successful Hanover, Germany the week of November 12 to 18, 2023. We’ll beryllium presenting respective sessions, including:  

• November 12, 2023—Recent advancements successful ample connection modelling applied to agriculture
  Learn however AI exertion tin beryllium applied to agriculture done an improved and businesslike enhancement to analytics processing—offering accrued insights astatine the velocity of a question. This league volition sermon what’s disposable contiguous and what the near-term aboriginal holds.
• November 13, 2023—Advancements successful exertion targeting the Agriculture and nutrient worth chain 
  Hear assorted organizational perspectives astir caller advancements successful agriculture that enactment information interoperability, improved transparency crossed cultivation worth chains, accelerated workplace and nutrient innovation, and the partnerships driving this change. 

For further information, sojourn the Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture website. The aboriginal is bright, arsenic generative AI and different analytics solutions alteration insights astir optimizing assets allocation, minimizing biology impact, maximizing cultivation productivity, and overmuch more.  

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