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agricultural data
34 published works
Agricultural Law and Taxation Blog
Recent Agricultural Law Developments Every Farmer, Rancher and Agricultural Professional Should Know
Overview Agricultural law rarely produces a single headline that captures everything farmers and ranchers need to know. Instead, the most important developments often appear in seemingly unrelated areas such as…
Agricultural Law and Taxation Blog
Agri Stats and the Future of Agricultural Data Sharing
Overview For decades, antitrust enforcement focused primarily on what competitors said to one another. Regulators searched for evidence of explicit agreements, secret meetings, price-fixing schemes, and market-allocation arrangements. But in…
Janzen Ag Law Blog
Updating the Model Ag Data Use Agreement
By Todd Janzen
Five years ago, the Ag Data Transparent (ADT) organization was receiving inquiries from companies who supported transparency efforts but didn’t know where to start in developing their agreements with farmers.…
Agricultural Law and Taxation Blog
Accumulated Earnings; Starting in Farming; Ag Data and Selling the Farm and Residence
OverviewThe legal and tax issues that farmers and ranchers can potentially face are practically innumerable. Today I have pulled four more out of the hat to briefly discuss. The first…
Janzen Ag Law Blog
Using Agricultural Data to Address Sustainability Challenges
By Todd Janzen
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…
Janzen Ag Law Blog
New Concepts in the Updated Core Principles for Ag Data
By Todd Janzen
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…
Janzen Ag Law Blog
Updated Core Principles for Ag Data (2024)
By Todd Janzen
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…
Janzen Ag Law Blog
Using Ag Data to Win Your Case
By Todd Janzen
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…
Janzen Ag Law Blog
Ag Data Collection for the USDA's Climate-Smart Commodities
By Todd Janzen
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,…
Agricultural Law Weekly Review
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—Week Ending September 2, 2022
Agricultural Data: USDA Announces 2022 Census of Agriculture Details On August 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announced that the agency will soon…