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Land O’Lakes, Microsoft partner on AI assistant to boost farm profitability

Land O’Lakes and Microsoft are developing an AI-powered digital assistant designed to optimize farming operations.

Land O’Lakes senior vice president Leah Anderson says the tool is called Oz.

“Now you can have even greater confidence between you as a farmer and your agronomist because your agronomist has the full force of Winfield United’s datasets. Six million datapoints collected a year, 20-plus years of data collection across our applied research platforms nationally.”

She tells Brownfield Oz equips retailers with data to help farmers maximize profits.

“So when you have a question about maybe the best herbicide to use or timing of when to apply something, or what goes in the tank, instead of guessing or having to Google it or paging through hundreds of pages of documented material you have those answers that you can count on in the palm of your hand with a digital assistant.”

Anderson says Oz is going through additional testing and she’s excited for the software’s eventual release.