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Agricultural knowledge remains dispersed across peer-reviewed journals, extension bulletins, technical reports, and multimedia field demonstrations, with associated code, data, and models often inaccessible to autonomous agents. We argue that the foundational FAIR principles and FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) must be extended to a new standard of agent-actionability, and propose FAIR4AG\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    as that extension for agricultural research. Across three modalities of knowledge units (text, multimedia, and databases), we offer concrete, implementation-ready practices: structured publishing formats and machine-readable licensing for documents; signal isolation, time-aligned visuals, and domain-aware curation for multimedia; and standardized APIs, Agent Skills, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for databases and model repositories. Realizing FAIR4AG\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    will require parallel investment in equitable participation, careful curation, human-in-the-loop verification, and governance norms that credit the data curators and infrastructure builders whose work agents now operate upon.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/frai.2026.1877344","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,6]],"date-time":"2026-08-06T05:31:42Z","timestamp":1785994302000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Future-proofing agricultural research: FAIR principles for agriculture AI agents (FAIR4AG2)"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Chenhao","family":"Qian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Food Science, Cornell University","place":["Ithaca, NY, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"YeonJin","family":"Jung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Food Science, Cornell University","place":["Ithaca, NY, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haowen","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Science, Cornell University","place":["Ithaca, NY, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yijing","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison","place":["Madison, WI, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ariana Nicole","family":"Negreiro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison","place":["Madison, WI, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Victor E.","family":"Cabrera","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison","place":["Madison, WI, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Renata","family":"Ivanek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University","place":["Ithaca, NY, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Martin","family":"Wiedmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Food Science, Cornell University","place":["Ithaca, NY, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","year":""},{"key":"ref2","year":""},{"key":"ref3","year":""},{"key":"ref4","first-page":"5687","author":"Awais","year":"2025"},{"key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"622","DOI":"10.1038\/s41597-022-01710-x","article-title":"Introducing the FAIR principles for research software","volume":"9","author":"Barker","year":"2022","journal-title":"Sci. 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