USDA Turns to AI to Help Validate Crop Report Data

USDA Turns to AI to Help Validate Crop Report Data

(NAFB.com) – USDA is using an artificial intelligence tool to check data in today’s monthly crop production report, following errors that raised questions about government crop estimates. Undersecretary Scott Hutchins says the tool would have caught a

USDA Introduces AI Checks for November 10 Crop Report After Errors Raise Questions About Government Data Accuracy

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is introducing artificial intelligence into its agricultural data-review process as the agency prepares to release its November crop production estimates. The post USDA Introduces AI Checks for November 10 Crop Report After Errors Raise Questions About Government Data Accuracy first appeared on [your]NEWS.

USDA turns to AI to help validate crop report data - Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network

USDA is using an artificial intelligence tool to check data in today’s monthly crop production report, following errors that raised questions about government crop estimates. Undersecretary Scott Hutchins says the tool would have caught a problem in September’s corn data. A computer file incorrectly combined irrigated and non-irrigated acreage information, although USDA says the original […]

When AI Helps Manage the Data, Who Checks Its Work?

Every organization has a file called “final,” another called “final revised,” and a third that someone swears is the one we actually use. Multiply that by years of shared drives, spreadsheets and databases, and it’s easy to see why artificial intelligence (AI) looks appealing. It can help sort through a mess that took humans years…

USDA Will Use AI Tool To Double Check Data Releases

URBANA, Ill. — Reuters’ Tom Polansek reported that “the US Department of Agriculture will use an artificial intelligence tool it built to check ​data in (this) week’s monthly crop production report, agency officials said, after a series of data missteps eroded farmers’ and traders’ ‌trust in its forecasts.” “After the USDA discovered errors in its […]