U.S.: University of Arkansas Partners with Ag-Analytics to Collect Precision Ag Data

By Cotton Grower

From every byte of every streamed television program we see, to the tweets, photos and stories that roll past us on social media, we live, breathe and drown in data, writes Tracy Courage at Cotton Grower. According to Visual Capitalist, 463 exabytes – that’s 463 followed by 18 zeroes – of data will be created daily by 2025.

Agriculture is no different. Modern production equipment such as planters, sprayers and harvesters are equipped with technology to gather data for the individual producer’s use. Corralling that data for research is difficult, because it’s scattered across the state and equipment often features proprietary software that prevents the data from being easily imported into usable formats.

However, a new partnership between the Cooperative Extension Service and Ag-Analytics will collect and analyze large volumes of ag data with an eye to creating better decision-making tools for farmers that will, in turn, help farmers improve their yields.

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