The Iowa Soybean Research Center (ISRC) and the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA) hosted a research day for 25 Iowa Soybean Association farmer board members and research staff at ISU’s AEA Farm and FEEL Lab on June 18. The day involved many agronomy students, faculty and staff.
Agronomy graduate student Carolina Freitas and intern Thiago Roque provided an overview of Dr. Sotirios Archontoulis’ continuous soybean project funded by the ISRC. Dr. Arti Singh, Dr. Danny Singh and their graduate students and staff participated by organizing the AIIRA portion of the day, hosting a poster session and demonstrating technology.
Ag Specialist Brian Scott provided an overview of AIIRA and soybean breeding updates, Arti Singh provided a demonstration of her weed and insect identification app which implements AI through the use of millions of images. Dr. Soumik Sarkar, computer science, provided an overview of cyber-agricultural systems, which involved agronomy graduate students Joscif Raigne and Sam Blair in demonstrating the use of drones for see and spray applications in weeds. Dinakaran Elango, Srikanth Panthulugiri and Heidi Dornath, agronomy, discussed abiotic stress tolerance studies (N-FAST).
Dr. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, mechanical engineering, with graduate students Juan Di Salvo and Hernan Torres Pacin, agronomy, and Shambhavi Joshi (ME) demonstrated 3D phenotyping. A poster and demonstration area at FEEL featured projects incorporating AI including sensors, 3D phenotyping, virtual augmentation and drones.
In photo at top: Graduate student Carolina Freitas and student intern Thiago Roque provide information on a continuous soybean project with ISA farmers.
