AgroBench is a reproducible benchmark that converts U.S. county-level crop yield statistics into weakly supervised pixel‑level crop time series. The data generation pipeline fuses USDA yield data with land cover masks, Sentinel‑2 and Sentinel‑1 imagery, climatic variables, and terrain information to produce multimodal sequences for individual crop pixels across the growing season. The benchmark includes over 13 million observations from 788,654 crop pixels, covering 5,107 county‑year combinations for five major U.S. crops from 2017 to 2024, and establishes a Leave‑One‑Year‑Out evaluation protocol with baseline machine learning results.
By Udaiveer Singh, Rajiv Ranjan, Shashank Tamaskar, Dharmendra Saraswat
The paper introduces MCLC‑NET, a multimodal continual learning framework for leaf counting that sequentially learns tasks using a memory buffer to retain key samples. It also presents MMLC, a new real‑world dataset containing RGB, depth, and thermal images across different crops and environmental conditions, organized in crop‑wise, time‑wise, and mixed orderings. Experiments show that MCLC‑NET outperforms existing methods on all three task orderings, achieving the lowest average mean squared errors.
By Ruchi Bhatt, Pratibha Kumari, Shreya Bansal, Vedant Agnihotri, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Mukesh Saini
The paper introduces a lightweight deep learning framework that forecasts Brazilian soybean yields using only routine weather data and two simple static inputs (crop year and agro-environmental label). Across 20 seasons, transformer-based models achieved the highest accuracy, outperforming traditional ridge regression and a moving‑average baseline by nearly 48%. Ablation studies show that the static inputs and spatial expansion improve performance without adding complexity, and SHAP analysis highlights the importance of crop year and weather variables in driving yield variations.
By Fernando Dupin da Cunha Mello (Stricto Sensu Department, SENAI CIMATEC University, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil), Prashant Kumar (Global Centre for Clean Air Research), Erick G. Sperandio Nascimento (Stricto Sensu Department, SENAI CIMATEC University, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil)
The study evaluates crop‑yield forecasting methods for the 2012 Midwestern US drought, comparing non‑deep learning machine learning models with a deep learning model (VITA) using 16 meteorological predictors. It highlights challenges such as distributional dissimilarity between training and test data, spatial and temporal sparsity, and demonstrates that sample weighting and feature selection improve non‑deep learning models but not VITA. The work contrasts deep versus non‑deep learning approaches and shows how modifications can mitigate issues arising from extreme drought conditions.
By Shrey Gupta, Yi Ming, George Mohler
arXiv:2609.09062v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a real-world case study of multi-task learning (MTL) for temporal process modeling from limited data with temporally sparse labels. Specific...
By Aseem Saxena, Paola Pes\'antez-Cabrera, Jonathan Magby, Markus Keller, Alan Fern
arXiv:2508. 03898v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate prediction of grape phenology is essential for timely vineyard management decisions, such as scheduling irrigation and fertilization, to maximize crop yield and quality.
By William Solow, Sandhya Saisubramanian
arXiv:2602. 17683v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Short-term forecasting of vegetation dynamics is a key enabler for data-driven decision support in precision agriculture.
By Irene Iele, Giulia Romoli, Daniele Molino, Elena Mulero Ayll\'on, Filippo Ruffini, Paolo Soda, Matteo Tortora
arXiv:2606. 05731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-season crop type mapping is critical for food security in the face of increasingly extreme climate-related threats to crops.
By August Posch, Jitendra Kumar, Forrest M. Hoffman, Auroop R. Ganguly
arXiv:2504. 18451v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rapid global population growth underscores the need for digitally enabled agricultural systems that support sustainable food production and data-driven resource management for farmers and stakeholders.
By Tewodros Alemu Ayall, Andy Li, Matthew Beddows, Milan Markovic, Georgios Leontidis
arXiv:2509. 06625v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Plants in their natural habitats endure an array of interacting stresses, both biotic and abiotic, that rarely occur in isolation.
By Aswini Kumar Patra, Anshu Rastogi, Lingaraj Sahoo
LeafTrackNet is a deep learning framework that combines a YOLOv10-based leaf detector with a MobileNetV3-based embedding network to track individual leaves over time. The authors introduce CanolaTrack, a large benchmark dataset of 5,704 RGB images with 31,840 annotated leaf instances from 184 canola plants. When evaluated without prior fine‑tuning, LeafTrackNet outperforms existing methods on CanolaTrack, KOMATSUNA, and MSU‑PID datasets, achieving HOTA scores of 88.03, 87.33, and 74.20 respectively.
By Shanghua Liu, Majharulislam Babor, Christoph Verduyn, Breght Vandenberghe, Bruno Betoni Parodi, Cornelia Weltzien, Marina M. -C. H\"ohne
The paper proposes a method for predicting future snow water equivalent (SWE) across the Western United States by first removing spatial correlations using a Gaussian Process-based linear transformation, then training a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network on the decorrelated data. This separation of spatial and temporal components improves predictive accuracy compared to baseline models. Additionally, the authors incorporate conformal prediction to provide distribution‑free uncertainty estimates for SWE forecasts.
By Colin Fenster, Adrienne Marshall, Soutir Bandyopadhyay, Daniel McKenzie