Tami Craig Shilling retired earlier this year after 35 years with Monsanto/Bayer, but she is not done working.
“I’m advising some ag tech organizations and spending some time volunteering to build some generative AI benchmarking efforts in the industry,” she said during an interview at this week’s AgGateway Annual Meeting. At the same time, Shilling is still living on a farm in southwest Illinois and raising “grandkids and corn, soybeans and cattle.”
Shilling gave a presentation at AgGateway on “Future-Ready Agriculture: Decisions, Data, and the Power of Ag,” how AI can transform data into decisions, and decisions into deeper relationships that strengthen the entire ag ecosystem.
“And my theme and really my closing challenge to the group was experiment,” she said. “Download one of the apps, ChatGPT, Gemini, you know, there’s multiple ones, but try it. Because I believe what will happen with the smart people that are members of Ag Gateway is they will begin to think about it and think about how can I use this to improve the work of employees, the work, the distribution, ag retailers, equipment companies, ag lenders, all the way to farmers.”
Listen to her interview and remarks.
Tami Craig Shilling interview (14:09)
Tami Craig Shilling remarks (51:10)
