A recent story has been making the rounds on ag websites about how a Canadian farmer agreed to a grain contract by texting a “thumbs-up” emoji. The farmer received a text message with an image of a grain contract offering
The USDA’s Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities program represents an investment of over $3.1 billion into US agriculture. The statistics for the program huge: USDA selected 141 proposals from corporations, non-profits, and universities were selected to study ways to increase climate-smart
FBN recently unveiled “Norm,” an artificial intelligence (AI) advisor for FBN members. Norm may be their first dedicated artificial intelligence platform for farmers, but it will certainly not be the last. AI is definitely on the rise in
Autonomous farming machines are coming. John Deere now sells an autonomous 8R tractor. Various companies offer large, commercial sized unmanned Ariel vehicles (UAVs) that can autonomously apply pesticides. Lely sells robotic milking machines. Some farmers may lament the loss of
ChatGPT is all over the news lately. If you missed it, ChatGPT is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) operated by OpenAI. ChatGPT is trained on data from various sources, including books, articles, websites, and other publicly available text type
At the recent American Ag Law Association conference, I presented on a panel on how grain trading is moving from paper to digital contracting at all points in the supply chain. This post is a summary of that presentation.
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Most agricultural landowners are familiar with the concept of “mineral rights.” Real property law has long recognized the right of a landowner to sever the surface rights with the subsurface right to extract minerals from the land. In legalese, these
Grower acceptance of soil carbon sequestration programs seems to be lagging, based upon my unscientific observations. There are many speculations about why this is true, including the minimal payments most programs are offering in exchange for somewhat lengthy agreements growers
Tesla has now sold more than 3 million cars worldwide. There is no doubt that automotive manufacturers are shifting research and development dollars towards making more electric vehicles (EVs) in order capture some of Tesla’s growing market dominance in this
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new rule meant increase the ESG information available to investors, but it is also causing some heartburn in agricultural circles due to the feared downstream effect. The SEC’s proposed corporate disclosure