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.

Contributions welcome! Please follow the contributing guidelines. Repos updated over a year ago can be found in Legacy this is a fork of Bryce Johnson list

Contents

Section	Subsections
Data Standardisation, Interoperability and APIs	Data standards compared · OADA · OpenAgri services · AgStack registries · ADAPT plugins · ISOBUS · Vendor API examples · Other tools
Farm Management Systems and Record Keeping
Automation and Robotics
Climate, Environment and Weather
Crop Modelling, Phenotyping and Pathology
Datasets
Geospatial and GIS	GIS Resources · GIS Platforms · Shapefiles
IoT, Hardware
Knowledgebases and Learning Resources
Machine Learning and AI
Remote Sensing and Imagery

Data Standardisation, Interoperability and APIs

Data standards compared

Three standards cover the farm side and one covers trade. SDM is generic IoT-style entities, ADAPT is machinery and field operations, OCSM is a semantic ontology, and DFC is supply-chain concepts. Overlap between them is small, so this is a choice of fit, not a ranking.

Project	Scope	Format	Users
dataModel.Agrifood Licence: none shown on repo page	Harmonised schemas for farms, parcels, crops, operations and greenhouse records	JSON Schema, JSON-LD context, NGSI-LD oriented	Run by the Smart Data Models programme, led by FIWARE Foundation, TM Forum, IUDX and OASC. More than 80 organisations collaborate across all domains. The Agrifood README names UCO and SensoWave (Animal model, IoF2020 ShareBeef use case)
Adapt Standard Licence: MIT	Farm reference data, field operations and geospatial layers, for B2B data sharing	JSON Schema	Backed by AgGateway (ADAPT Oversight Committee). AEF (the ISOBUS body) cooperates with AgGateway, with AEM, VDMA, AGCO, CLAAS, CNH and John Deere behind AEF. Cotton Inc. co-developed the cotton gin plugin
OpenAgri-OCSM Licence: EUPL-1.2 (repo), CC BY 4.0 (model, per README)	OpenAgri Common Semantic Model, an ontology built on AIM and Ploutos CSM	RDF/OWL, JSON-LD, JSON Schema	Hosted by the AgStack Foundation (Linux Foundation). Developed in the OpenAgri project (Horizon Europe): Maastricht University coordinates a consortium of 18 partners, including SCiO and Łukasiewicz-PIT. Built on DEMETER AIM and the Ploutos model
Data Food Consortium Licence: AGPL-3 (ontology and UML repos; standard repo not checked)	Product, order and agent concepts for short food supply chains (trade, not production)	OWL/RDF ontology, JSON-LD, LDP endpoints	French multi-stakeholder initiative, started in 2017 by local food platforms: Open Food France, Cagette.net, Panier Local, La Ruche Qui Dit Oui, Ekylibre and Sony CSL. Later participants listed include Socleo, Elzeard, Mycelium, INRAE and Open Food Facts

OADA: formats and API tooling

The Open Ag Data Alliance, led by the Purdue Open Ag Technology Group, defines an API for sharing farm data plus JSON Schema formats for what travels over it. It is transport-oriented, not a domain model, and its backing is mostly legacy. The repos below are the formats, a reference server and client tools.

Project	Description	Stars	Last commit
formats	Simplified approach to OADA formats using JSON Schema
server	Reference implementation of an OADA-conformant API server, TypeScript
cli	Pipeable OADA CLI client
oada-error-js	OADA standard error middleware
oadaify	Make OADA data nicer to work with in JS/TS

OpenAgri services

OpenAgri is a Horizon Europe project (18 partners, coordinated by Maastricht University) building open-source farm management tools. OCSM is its data model. These repos are the services around it, so they only matter if you adopt the OpenAgri stack.

Project	Description	Stars	Last commit
OpenAgri-GateKeeper	JWT-based authentication and access proxy
OpenAgri-Bootstrap-Deployment	Modular configuration and deployment of all OpenAgri services

AgStack registries and infrastructure

AgStack is a Linux Foundation project that hosts shared agricultural infrastructure. The core piece is a registry that gives each field polygon a unique GeoID. The rest is identity, datastore and semantic tooling around it.

Project	Description	Stars	Last commit
asset-registry	Registers a geospatial asset (typically a polygon) and returns a unique GeoID; Flask, AR 1.0
user-registry	User accounts, JWT issuance and API keys for AR 1.0
ar2	Asset Registry 2: hub and spoke model
ar2-hub	Hub component for Asset Registry 2
pancake	AI-native geospatial datastore and DPI services: field ownership grants as SD-JWT credentials, signed audit ledger, scheduled vendor data ingestion
semantic-croissant	Semantic Croissant infrastructure, forked from codata/semantic-croissant

ADAPT Framework plugins and tools

ADAPT is AgGateway's open-source project: a standard data model plus a plugin framework that converts vendor formats to and from it. These are the plugins and a diagnostic tool, all C#.

Project	Description	Stars	Last commit
ISOv4Plugin	ADAPT Framework plugin for ISOXML (ISO11783-10), C#
StandardPlugin	ADAPT Framework plugin to convert data to the ADAPT Standard, C#
cotton-gin-data-plugin	ADAPT Framework import-only plugin for cotton gin data, developed with Cotton Inc., C#
ADAPT-Visualizer	Windows Forms diagnostic tool for the ADAPT Framework, C#

ISOBUS (ISO 11783)

ISO 11783 is the tractor-implement CAN bus standard. Open-Agriculture's AgIso projects are an open-source C++ stack and tooling for it. This is machine connectivity, not a data model, so it only matters if the robot must talk to implements.

Project	Description	Stars	Last commit
AgIsoStack-plus-plus	Free open-source C++ ISOBUS library (ISO11783/J1939 CAN stack), MIT
AgIsoVirtualTerminal	Experimental ISO11783-6 Virtual Terminal (VT) server GUI based on AgIsoStack++, C++
AgIsoTerminalDesigner	Experimental GUI for designing and modifying VT object pools, Rust
AgIsoDDOPGenerator	Free ISO11783 DDOP editor based on AgIsoStack++, C++
AgIsoDevelopmentTools	AgIso development tools, C++

Vendor API examples

Single-vendor sample code: OAuth2 clients for John Deere's API. Useful only if you integrate with Deere's platform.

Project	Description	Stars	Last commit
MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth2-Java-Example	Java MyJohnDeere API client example
MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth2-NodeJS-Example	Node.js MyJohnDeere API client example

Other tools and communities

Unrelated one-offs that fit nowhere else: a database engine, a botanical data crate and a community ecosystem.

Project	Description	Stars	Last commit
SawitDB	Node.js database engine built for data sovereignty
Botanica	Rust crate for botanical data management with taxonomic hierarchy, cultivation tracking and Darwin Core compliance
OpenTeam	Open technology ecosystem for agricultural management	n/a	n/a

Farm Management Systems and Record Keeping

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

Automation and Robotics

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

Climate, Environment and Weather

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

Crop Modelling, Phenotyping and Pathology

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

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.

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.
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).

Remote Sensing and Imagery

Project Name	Description
Raster Vision	Deep learning for aerial and satellite imagery.

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