The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia has been declared the winner of the 2018 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics. The competition, hosted by the Analytics Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), concluded during the 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research in Baltimore, Maryland, […]

Syngenta and the Analytics Society of INFORMS have announced the finalists for the 2018 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics. Now in its third year, the competition—which is hosted by the Analytics Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), aims to address the challenge of achieving global food security by fostering […]

Do you excel in math and analytics and have an idea to solve a real-world crop production issue? Then you need to enter the Syngenta Crop Challege in Analytics. Syngenta and the Analytics Society of INFORMS invite analytics and operations research students and professionals to contribute to the future of agriculture by entering the Syngenta […]

It’s down to the final five. The Analytics Society of INFORMS has selected the competition finalists for the 2017 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics. The Crop Challenge tasks participants to apply analytics to develop a model that predicts which soybean seed varieties are more likely to be chosen by farmers in a growing region. “After […]