Awesome Agriculture

A curated list of awesome open source technology for agriculture, farming and gardening. Pull requests welcome!

Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock for food and materials. This list covers open source robotics, hardware, data, modelling and software for farms and growers.

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Section	Subsections
Automation and Robotics
Climate, Environment and Weather
Crop Modelling, Phenotyping and Pathology
Datasets
Data Standardisation, Interoperability and APIs
Farm Management Systems and Record Keeping
Geospatial and GIS	GIS Resources · GIS Platforms · Shapefiles
IoT, Hardware
Knowledgebases and Learning Resources
Machine Learning and AI
Remote Sensing and Imagery

Automation and Robotics

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Project Name	Description
amiga-dev-kit	Development kit for third-party hardware and software extensions to the farm-ng Amiga rover.
bonsai-sdk	SDK for interacting with the Bonsai Robotics Amiga through ROS 2.
farmbot-arduino-firmware	Arduino firmware executing g-code like commands over serial to move the FarmBot and operate the tool mount.
farmbot-js	JavaScript wrapper for FarmBot’s authentication and RPC instructions.
farmbot-py	Authentication and communication utilities for FarmBot, Python.
FarmBot-ROS	Open source farming robot.
Farmbot-Web-App	Setup, customize and control FarmBot from any device, TypeScript.
farmbot_os	Embedded OS handling motor axes, watering tools and sensors on FarmBot hardware.
feldfreund_devkit	Development platform for autonomous weeding.
Fields2Cover	Robust and efficient coverage paths for autonomous agricultural vehicles.
JABAS.AI	ROS 2 repositories including graph-based topological navigation for crop-row layouts.
librcom	ROMI rcom library, C++.
lizard	Domain-specific language for real-time motor control and E-stop logic on microcontrollers.
romi-apps	Applications for the ROMI system: CNC, camera, gimbal, cablebot, rover.
romitask	ROMI task runner, a Luigi based task pipeline.
rosys	Asynchronous Python framework for web GUI and state handling on mobile robots, used for field rovers.
Sowbot	Line-following sowing and weeding robot with some web UI tools.
trellis	General-purpose middleware framework for distributed applications, by Agtonomy. Not ROS-based.

Climate, Environment and Weather

Project Name	Description
frostline	Dataset, API and Python parser for USDA plant hardiness zones.
GSODR	Global summary daily weather data in R.
iem	Code that makes the Iowa Environmental Mesonet run.
OpenAgri-IrrigationManagement	Evapotranspiration calculations and soil moisture analysis.
OpenAgri-WeatherService	Weather forecasts and critical agricultural indicators.
pyTSEB	Python two-source energy balance model for estimating evapotranspiration from remote sensing data.
soilDB	R library for simplified access to NCSS soil databases.

Crop Modelling, Phenotyping and Pathology

Project Name	Description
ApsimX	Next-generation APSIM framework for agricultural system simulations, C#.
AquaCrop	Python implementation of AquaCrop-OS for crop growth and water use.
Awesome Crop Models	Curated list of open source crop models, process models, tools, applications and data-driven models.
DSSAT	Cropping-system simulations across crops, soils, weather and management, Fortran.
Open Plant Pathology (GitHub organisation)	Community for open data and computational tools in epidemiology and pathogen population biology and ecology.
opensource-pestmodels	Hierarchical pest and disease modelling framework (13 models, 19 crops, 54 threats) with Python wheel, FastAPI and MCP server.
PCSE	Python environment for running crop growth and production models.
plant-3d-explorer	Browser application to visualise 3D scanned plants.
plant-3d-vision	Digital reconstruction and phenotypic quantification of plant phyllotaxis.
plant-imager	Library controlling the PlantImager (hardware) or the VirtualPlantImager (Blender) to acquire images of single potted plants.
Plant-Imager3	Plant imager software, Python.
plantdb	Database to host and serve images and processed data.
romicgal	Python CGAL bindings for skeletonisation.
skeleton_refinement	Plant skeleton optimisation using a stochastic framework on point cloud data.

Datasets

Project Name	Description
Agriculture Datasets Collection	Curated machine learning datasets addressing food security in developing regions.
CEAOD (GitHub repository)	Controlled Environment Agriculture Open Data: standardised greenhouse and indoor farming datasets with analysis tools.
digital-agriculture-datasets	Open datasets for training and benchmarking AI and robotic systems in agriculture and off-road environments.
FAO/NASA Harvest Crop Type Dataset	Ground truth crop type observations with geolocated field data for training and validating cropland classification models.
Growstuff (GitHub repository)	Record keeping and crop database with a good API.
PlantVillage	Leaf images of healthy and diseased plants, 38 disease classes across 14 crops.
TERRA REF (GitHub organisation)	1 PB of public domain, high resolution sensor data from sorghum breeding trials. Data publication, with large files on Globus (ncsa#terra-public).
US Farmers Market Statistics 2026	USDA-derived farmers market statistics, CC BY 4.0.
USDA Market Prices	Daily boxed beef, pork and fed cattle prices from USDA AMS price reports since 2020, downloadable as CSV.
VarshaKrishi Field NDVI	One year of Sentinel-2 L2A field-mean NDVI for a field near Katol, Nagpur, India, with cloud verdict and haze flag per pass. CSV and JSON, CC BY 4.0.

Data Standardisation, Interoperability and APIs

Project Name	Description
ADAPT-Visualizer	Windows Forms diagnostic tool for the ADAPT Framework, C#.
AgIsoDDOPGenerator	Free ISO11783 DDOP editor based on AgIsoStack++, C++.
AgIsoDevelopmentTools	AgIso development tools, C++.
AgIsoStack-plus-plus	Free open-source C++ ISOBUS library (ISO11783/J1939 CAN stack), MIT.
AgIsoTerminalDesigner	Experimental GUI for designing and modifying VT object pools, Rust.
AgIsoVirtualTerminal	Experimental ISO11783-6 Virtual Terminal (VT) server GUI based on AgIsoStack++, C++.
ar2	Asset Registry 2: hub and spoke model.
ar2-hub	Hub component for Asset Registry 2.
asset-registry	Registers a geospatial asset (typically a polygon) and returns a unique GeoID; Flask, AR 1.0.
Botanica	Rust crate for botanical data management with taxonomic hierarchy, cultivation tracking and Darwin Core compliance.
cli	Pipeable OADA CLI client.
cotton-gin-data-plugin	ADAPT Framework import-only plugin for cotton gin data, developed with Cotton Inc., C#.
Data Food Consortium	Open data standard (ontology, JSON-LD, LDP, OIDC) for interoperability between platforms used by producers in short food supply chains.
dataModel.Agrifood	Smart Data Models for agrifood: harmonised schemas for farms, parcels, crops, operations and greenhouse records.
formats	Simplified approach to OADA formats using JSON Schema.
ISOv4Plugin	ADAPT Framework plugin for ISOXML (ISO11783-10), C#.
MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth2-Java-Example	Java MyJohnDeere API client example.
MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth2-NodeJS-Example	Node.js MyJohnDeere API client example.
oada-error-js	OADA standard error middleware.
oadaify	Make OADA data nicer to work with in JS/TS.
OpenAgri-Bootstrap-Deployment	Modular configuration and deployment of all OpenAgri services.
OpenAgri-GateKeeper	JWT-based authentication and access proxy.
OpenAgri-OCSM	OpenAgri Common Semantic Model.
OpenTeam	Open technology ecosystem for agricultural management.
pancake	AI-native geospatial datastore and DPI services: field ownership grants as SD-JWT credentials, signed audit ledger, scheduled vendor data ingestion.
SawitDB	Node.js database engine built for data sovereignty.
semantic-croissant	Semantic Croissant infrastructure, forked from codata/semantic-croissant.
server	Reference implementation of an OADA-conformant API server, TypeScript.
Standard	ADAPT Standard: data schema for farm reference data, field operations and geospatial layers, for B2B data sharing.
StandardPlugin	ADAPT Framework plugin to convert data to the ADAPT Standard, C#.
user-registry	User accounts, JWT issuance and API keys for AR 1.0.

Farm Management Systems and Record Keeping

Project Name	Description
AgriOS	Odoo 18 farm management addons: farmers, plots, trade and training (AGPL-3).
Canopi	Agroecological design for permaculture, syntropic agriculture and food forests, with a plant catalog and geolocated map canvas. Rust and TypeScript, AGPL-3.0.
Ekylibre	Farm management information system for farmers and small enterprises, Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
farmOS	Web-based farm record keeping application built with Drupal and PHP.
GrowerHub	Greenhouse and small-farm management: Zigbee2MQTT monitoring, plant and watering journals, lighting and irrigation automation.
HortusFox	Self-hosted, collaborative plant management and journaling app.
inatrace	Meta repository linking the INATrace backend, frontend, mobile and blockchain components; blockchain-based track and trace for supply chains.
inatrace-backend	Java/Spring backend.
inatrace-coffee-network	Blockchain smart contracts for the coffee supply chain.
inatrace-frontend	Angular frontend.
inatrace-mobile	Mobile app for farmer data collection.
LiteFarm	Community-led, not-for-profit farm management system.
OpenAgri-FarmCalendar	Digital farm calendar for operations, observations, parcels and assets.
OpenAgri-ReportingService	PDF report generation for agricultural data visualisation.
Plant-it	Self-hosted gardening companion app.
tracefoodchain	Flutter app and web app for tracing goods along food production chains.

Geospatial and GIS

GIS Resources

Project Name	Description
Awesome GIS	Curated list of GIS related sources.

GIS Platforms

Project Name	Description
QGIS (GitHub repository)	Free, open source, cross-platform (Linux, Windows, macOS) geographic information system.

Shapefiles

Project Name	Description
pyshp	Reads and writes ESRI Shapefiles in pure Python.

IoT, Hardware

Project Name	Description
AgOpenGPS	Precision mapping and section control software.
Farm Hack	Worldwide community of farmers who build and modify their own tools.
Farm-Data-Relay-System	Transports sensor data in remote areas over ESP-NOW, LoRa and other protocols, without WiFi.
Open hydroponics	Fully automated hydroponic OS.
OpenWeedLocator	Low-cost, image-based weed detection device for in-crop and fallow scenarios.
romi-bldc-controller	Arduino firmware to control brushless motors, based on SimpleFOC.
Simplesteer	RTK GPS tractor autosteer with a web interface controllable from a smartphone; runs on a Raspberry Pi.

Knowledgebases and Learning Resources

Project Name	Description
romi-robots-docs	Source of the ROMI documentation at docs.romi-project.eu.
Trefle	Plant data API.

Machine Learning and AI

Project Name	Description
AgML	Centralised framework for agricultural machine learning.
agridat	R package with an extensive collection of datasets from agricultural experiments.
AgriQuant-AI	AI-powered weather intelligence for agricultural commodity futures, Python.
AI Segmentation	QGIS plugin by TerraLab for AI-based segmentation.
FarmVibes.AI	Multimodal geospatial ML models for agriculture and sustainability.
palefire	LLM and knowledge graph integration framework.
PlantCV	Plant phenotyping software using computer vision.
romiseg	Virtual plant segmentation from 2D images generated by the virtual scanner, using neural networks (PyTorch).