September 2026

John Deere Introduces JD, an AI Assistant Built to End Farming’s Data Paralysis Problem

Ames, Iowa sits about fifteen miles from Boone, where the Farm Progress Show opens this week, and in the days before the gates opened John Deere brought a group of journalists and content creators to the Agriculture Innovation Lab at Iowa State University to talk about the data collected at their farms and what the future holds for that data. The future, as of this morning, is JD: an artificial intelligence assistant built into John Deere Operations Center that lets a farmer ask a question in plain language and get an answer drawn from their own fields, machines, and records.