Accessing agriculture’s big data

Accessing agriculture’s big data

For several years, farmers have been using technology that is accumulating massive amounts of data on production practices – also referred to as “big data.” But how might big data be managed? What information will be available to whom? Technology, for example, frequently fits the category of “private but available for a price.” The general

Barnes responds to big data skeptic

Wade Barnes has met his share of big data and precision agriculture skeptics. One large Saskatchewan farmer bluntly told Barnes, co-founder and CEO of Farmers Edge, his farm needed another agronomist “because I didn’t spray my lentils on time,” not a data program. The farmer didn’t spray on time because he was waiting for his


Farm groups, ag tech companies agree on data privacy standards

Reuters — A consortium of farmer organizations and agriculture data technology providers on Thursday published a set of data privacy and security principles aimed at reassuring farmers that data they share with Big Data services providers will not be misused. The non-binding principles are also meant to provide companies that collect, store and analyze farmer