Overview
- Announced Nov. 12, the alliance formalizes a push to co-develop AI tools for farming, starting with Oz built on Azure AI Foundry.
- Oz is in beta with retailers across the country, with broader availability planned later in 2025.
- The mobile app replaces an 800-page agronomy reference with on-demand guidance on planting decisions, timing, weather, pests, and input choices.
- Land O’Lakes contributes 20 years of standardized agronomic data to cut noise and increase confidence versus general internet-trained models.
- Microsoft and Land O’Lakes position Oz as a copilot to help rein in costs and protect yields as farms face high input prices, weak crop markets, and labor shortages, while Land O’Lakes vets outputs to prevent hallucinations.