On a farm, the hardest problems rarely arrive as neat questions. They show up as a yellowing patch in a field corner, a new pest pressure after a warm winter, or a stubborn yield gap that refuses to explain itself. The advice a grower needs is often buried in a mix of field history, product labels, trial data, and the kind of “local knowledge” that lives in an agronomist’s head.
Land O’Lakes and Microsoft want to turn that messy reality into a conversation.
In mid-November, the two companies announced a multiyear partnership to build AI tools for agriculture,
