United StatesAgriculture and food production2025 – ongoingLand O'Lakes
Oz AI assistant for agronomists
Land O'Lakes is testing an AI assistant that answers agronomists from 20 years of crop data; no results yet
Problem
Retail agronomists who advise farmers on herbicides, application timing and tank mixes rely on Land O'Lakes' 800-page Crop Protection Guide and large volumes of field trial data. Getting a farm-specific answer meant searching that material by hand.
Approach
In late 2025 Land O'Lakes and Microsoft announced Oz, built on Azure AI Foundry, as part of a multiyear alliance that builds on five years of work together. Oz draws on the Crop Protection Guide, built on two decades of data, and WinField United datasets to give mobile answers to agronomists' product and management questions. It was in beta with retail agronomists, with wider access planned for 2026.
Results
No figures published
Takeaway
The assistant helps advisers who work between the cooperative and farmers, drawing on decades of proprietary agronomic data. It followed the move of two-thirds of the company's IT to Azure; no usage or outcome figures had been published.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Agriculture and food production
- Business function
- Customer serviceInternal work and knowledge management
- Innovation type
- Product and service innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Co-developed with a partner
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Agri-Pulse reports the multiyear alliance and describes Oz as a digital assistant on Azure AI Foundry that uses Land O'Lakes data, including the 800-page Crop Protection Guide built on 20 years of data. It says Oz is being tested with retail agronomists, with access to expand the following year. Land O'Lakes had moved two-thirds of its IT to Azure and was piloting Copilot.
Brownfield Ag News interviewed Leah Anderson of Land O'Lakes, who named the assistant. She describes uses such as choosing a herbicide, timing an application and deciding what goes in the tank, drawing on WinField United data of some six million data points a year. Oz was still undergoing additional testing.
Full details are in the original sources.