Will AI Replace Agronomic Advisors?

This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with your Farm of the Future Report.

Almanac recently announced their AI-powered co-pilot Alma to help agronomists and farmers extract meaning and actionable insights from their data. But what does this mean for the role of the agronomist, crop advisor, and pest control advisor in the future? Almanac CEO Sumer Johal says not only are their jobs safe, he sees it amplifying the need for capable growers and trusted advisors.

Johal… “I would suggest that our focus has been always to provide information to enable the human to do a better job and not to replace the human. And so I don't think we want that role because ultimately the human is responsible for it. There's a lot of regulations where crop advisors are ultimately responsible and we think that this information and the way we are delivering it, actually empowers crop advisors to do a better job, to do a faster job, do a job more conveniently and more easily, and with much more agency and have choice amongst different products, be able to really serve their clients the grower with the best possible information at their fingertips. So in that way, we are very much the embedded copilot. We're not the pilot. The PCA is the pilot, or the grower is a pilot.”

Almanac is the new brand that encompasses established companies Semios and Agworld.