The following article is a summary of my presentation to the 32nd Annual No-Till Conference written by Landon Swan, No-Till Farmer Magazine, regarding the ag data issues arising from the USDA’s Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities.
Ag data has become
Playing basketball in my younger days, I remember one thing would happen in practice after any loss—the coach would make you go back to practice basic fundamentals. Dribble. Pass. Shoot. It was a good life lesson. Any time you find
Ten years after American Farm Bureau Federation first publicized the Ag Data Core Principles, the Ag Data Transparent organization undertook the effort to update the principles to reflect changes in the ag data market. This post explores some of
Climate change has brought new words into our vocabularies that barely existed a decade ago. Two words frequently used when discussing reduction of the carbon footprint for agriculture are “insets” and “offsets.” This post explores these terms as they pertain
In 2014, American Farm Bureau Federation led industry roundtable discussions about collection, use, and sharing of agricultural data from farmers. The result of those discussions was the creation of a document called the Privacy and Security Principles for Farm Data,
Midwestern politicians are drumming up support for increased oversight of foreign ownership of US agricultural farmland. At the state and federal level, there are bills seeking to reduce or increase reporting obligations for foreign ownership of farmland. Arkansas even went
Farm Journal’s recent article featured one of our long-fought cases against the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for crop damage (Damned by Data: State Destroys Farmer’s Yield, Pays $810,000 in Damages). As explained in the article, our
Artificial intelligence (AI) use is on the rise in agriculture and elsewhere, thanks to generative AI platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. AI is often described as a Black Box, where data is fed into the box and decisions are made, without
I was fortunate to be asked to testify before the US Senate Agricultural Committee recently about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on agriculture. Although AI and its simpler cousin machine learning (ML) have operated behind the scenes for years
There has been a lot of talk about soil carbon farming in the last few years. The USDA describes “soil carbon farming” as “the use of specific on-farm practices designed to take carbon out of the air and
