Data Management
January 23, 2018
Growers are very mindful of their data and the importance of owning the rights to it. Even still, many are willingly giving their data to corporations in order to improve their productivity, increase their yield, and make their farms...
Data Management
January 17, 2018
My friends, as many of you told me repeatedly throughout the last 12 months, 2017 was an interesting year in Ag Tech.
We witnessed needle-moving mergers and acquisitions (Deere-Blue River; AGCO-Precision Planting; FieldReveal, etc.), intriguing product launches (SmartFirmer, Sentera's Phoenix...
Data Management
January 17, 2018
The digital revolution is changing the way agriculture is done.
Rapid population growth, changes in market demands, depleting agricultural land, and significant changes in climate patterns, including much more frequent extreme events — all these factors are pushing agriculture out...
Data Management
January 16, 2018
Probably most professionals who deal with business data have at least heard the term “blockchain” bantered about as potentially the “next big thing” for a wide range of industries, agriculture included.
But what is it? One could imagine a Jerry...
Data Management
January 16, 2018
For you sports junkies out there, if I could prove to you that I can correctly predict winners and losers with 80% accuracy, would you use my advice in Las Vegas? I don’t gamble, but according to this article...
Data Management
January 15, 2018
AgGateway's Precision Agriculture and Grain & Feed councils have issued a call for participation for a proof-of-concept initiative in AgGateway's ongoing grain traceability project; the deadline is January 23 to express interest in participating. The Commodity Automation by Rail...
Data Management
January 11, 2018
All service technicians have heard this line. Most often when spring makes its anticipated return to our lives. It is the phone call or text most often received by me, and any other technology specialist, early in the morning,...
Data Management
December 28, 2017
It is here again--the end of another year. For me, this is always a good time to take a look back at some of the big stories from the past year, writes Ag Law Blog author and attorney Todd...
Data Management
December 28, 2017
It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record, writes AgFunder.com's Emma Cosgrove.
In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were...
Data Management
December 21, 2017
As the outside temperature regularly reads over 40 degrees Celsius, Australian cotton growers have again reached one of the busiest times of the season: irrigation time! With some fields that are irrigated by overhead equipment as an exception, flood...
Data Management
December 18, 2017
Blockchain can be the “key mediator” to make supply chains more transparent by enabling food firms to share data based on trust, and to transform their operations to be much more efficient, but it will require a fundamental shift...
Connectivity
December 6, 2017
Seated from left: Prof. Dr. Arno Ruckelshausen, Dr. Bernd Scherer, and Dr. Reinhard Grandke.
While North American growers slog through yet another season of depressed farm incomes and commodity markets, across the pond it’s looking like...
Data Management
December 5, 2017
If you checked the Internet lately, you’ve probably seen the words, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain. I won’t describe them in great detail here, but Google is your friend.
Currently, Bitcoin is the talk of the town gaining 1,000% in value...
Data Management
December 4, 2017
Some estimates suggest over half of growers’ activities are impacted by weather conditions, from field workability to fertility management to harvest timing. No wonder more companies are entering the weather data and analysis space, either with standalone products or by teaming...
Data Management
December 4, 2017
The USDA Soil Conservation Service, now Natural Resources Conservation Service, has been charged with creating the country’s soil survey. This survey was designed for broad land use planning. My career was spent mapping soils across the country and that...
Data Management
December 2, 2017
Right on the heels of news it has raised $110 million in a Series D funding round, Farmer's Business Network CEO Amol Deshpande spoke at the 2017 Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) Conference and Expo, held November 28-30 in Phoenix,...
Data Management
December 1, 2017
Farmers Business Network announced a $110 million Series D funding round, led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Temasek. Previous investors Acre Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GV (formerly Google Ventures)...
Data Management
November 28, 2017
Aaron Ault: “From the farmer’s perspective, data has been the future for 25 years. Without an open-source platform, the ag-data market is negligible."
To Aaron Ault’s eyes, ag technology right now is something like a walled...
Data Management
November 22, 2017
Is the Internet as a “pipeline” for data a public utility, or an entity that should be open for manipulation by Internet service providers (ISPs)? That’s the essential question surrounding the concept of “net neutrality” that is once again...
Data Management
November 22, 2017
Cargill’s traceable turkey pilot program is bringing consumers closer to the source of their Thanksgiving turkey using blockchain technology. The company estimates traceable turkeys will be available to more than 500,000 consumers, reports Erica Shaffer with MeatPoultry.com.
Blockchain is most...
