Data-Driven Strategies and Machine Learning Shaping the Future of Agriculture PrecisionAg

Last week I attended the 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research in Baltimore, MD. Among the activities of the conference, several teams of researchers from universities and industries were competing in challenges to show how their work is influencing the world. I had the honor to be among the finalist teams for the 2018 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics. The Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics was established in 2015 with funding provided by prize winnings awarded to Syngenta in connection with its receipt of the 2015 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences. This year's Challenge asked participants to develop a quantitative framework for predicting corn hybrids performance in new, untested locations.