WSU leads the Institute for Agricultural AI for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support, commonly known as AgAID, launched in 2021 with support from NSF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The institute integrates researchers across the country from multiple disciplines to empower agriculture with trailblazing AI-tools to aid in decision-making and workforce development.
AgAID Director Dr. Ananth Kalyanaraman was joined by Ines Hanrahan, Executive Director of the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission and Chair of AgAID’s External Advisory Board, for the trip to D.C.
In conversations with NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan and Senator Maria Cantwell, Dr. Kalyanaraman talked about how AgAID researchers harness the combined power of human and artificial intelligence in key areas related to perennial specialty crops and are developing predictive AI models that allow farmers to effectively predict and respond to extreme weather like frost and drought.
