DASH.

Digital Agricultural Systems Hub (DASH) is a USDA Agricultural Research Service initiative that builds imaging tools and the Agricultural Image Repository used to train agricultural computer vision. Steven Mirsky and Amanda Hulse-Kemp are the DASH co-directors.

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At a glance.

Markets: Phenotyping · Crop imaging · Agricultural AI datasets
Regions served: United States

People

The team.

Steven Mirsky

Co-Director

Amanda Hulse-Kemp

Co-Director

Field relationships · DASH

Customers & deployments.

Robot · DASH BenchBot

Grand Farm ↗

Partner · Active · Other · US

Wheatland, North Dakota, United States · Wheatland, North Dakota

sugar beets · Cercospora leaf spot imaging

Grand Farm is hosting the BenchBot robotic imaging platform at their site, where it will serve as a core resource for the region and spur innovation among USDA-ARS, North Dakota State University, and their partners.

grandfarm.com ↗

Product family · 1 robot

The machines.

DASH

DASH BenchBot

Rail-mounted gantry that carries a camera over potted plants and collects high-resolution images for agricultural AI. DASH describes it as an open-source imaging platform. Units are hosted by research partners; DASH does not sell the machine. The Grand Farm Innovation Campus in Wheatland, North Dakota, installed a unit in October 2026 to image sugar beets for Cercospora leaf spot.

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Categories · DASH

Where they work.

Scouting

Updates

News & developments.

Product news · Oct 1, 2026

Grand Farm installs a BenchBot at the Innovation Campus ↗

grandfarm.com

Amanda Hulse-Kemp · Co-Director

Grand Farm said it installed a BenchBot imaging platform at the Innovation Campus in Wheatland, North Dakota, in October 2026. The campus planted sugar beets for the platform in June. Amanda Hulse-Kemp said DASH is working with sugar beet grower associations on Cercospora leaf spot mapping in the Fargo area. DASH hosts the machine at partner sites and does not sell it.