---
language: en
license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: text-classification
library_name: transformers
tags:
- agriculture
- agronomy
- query-classification
- farming
- corn
- soybeans
- rag
- routing
---

# Cornbelt AI Agronomy Query Router (MiniLM)

## Overview

The **Cornbelt AI Agronomy Query Router** is a lightweight classification model designed to analyze farmer queries and determine how they should be processed by an agricultural AI assistant.

The model acts as a **routing layer** for a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system by identifying:

- whether a query is agriculture-related
- which crop the query concerns
- agronomic topic categories
- whether additional context such as weather or location may be required

This allows an AI system to efficiently determine which knowledge sources and tools should be used to answer the question.

The model was trained using **MiniLM**, a compact transformer architecture optimized for fast inference.

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## Intended Use

This model is intended to support agronomy-focused AI systems by performing **query understanding and routing** before deeper reasoning or retrieval occurs.

Example use cases include:

- agronomy chat assistants
- agricultural decision support systems
- RAG pipelines for extension publications
- crop management advisory tools
- agronomy knowledge search systems

Typical pipeline usage: