WOFOSTGym: A Crop Simulator for Learning Annual and Perennial Crop Management Strategies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19308v2
• Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:35:09 GMT
• Title: WOFOSTGym: A Crop Simulator for Learning Annual and Perennial Crop Management Strategies
• Authors: William Solow, Sandhya Saisubramanian, Alan Fern,
• Abstract summary: WOFOSTGym is a crop simulation environment designed to train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to optimize agromanagement decisions.<n>Our simulator supports 23 annual crops and two perennial crops, enabling RL agents to learn diverse agromanagement strategies in multi-year, multi-crop, and multi-farm settings.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce WOFOSTGym, a novel crop simulation environment designed to train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to optimize agromanagement decisions for annual and perennial crops in single and multi-farm settings. Effective crop management requires optimizing yield and economic returns while minimizing environmental impact, a complex sequential decision-making problem well suited for RL. However, the lack of simulators for perennial crops in multi-farm contexts has hindered RL applications in this domain. Existing crop simulators also do not support multiple annual crops. WOFOSTGym addresses these gaps by supporting 23 annual crops and two perennial crops, enabling RL agents to learn diverse agromanagement strategies in multi-year, multi-crop, and multi-farm settings. Our simulator offers a suite of challenging tasks for learning under partial observability, non-Markovian dynamics, and delayed feedback. WOFOSTGym's standard RL interface allows researchers without agricultural expertise to explore a wide range of agromanagement problems. Our experiments demonstrate the learned behaviors across various crop varieties and soil types, highlighting WOFOSTGym's potential for advancing RL-driven decision support in agriculture.

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