“Show me all the scouting reports that were done for corn and how often was tar spot mentioned. Well, 479 scouting reports, tar spot was only mentioned 79 times.”
Agris Cooperative · Podcasts - RealAgriculture · AGRIS taps AI to turn farm data into better agronomic decisions
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write plain-English prompts to a large language model that queries their agronomy database for scouting-report statistics
479 scouting reports, 79 times tar spot mentioned
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