USDA and Ag Data: Improving Productivity while Protecting Privacy

I recently co-authored* a paper for AGree that explains how USDA can harness the power of ag data to improve conservation programs. Here is an excerpt, with a link to the original paper. Executive SummaryThe last five years have witnessed an explosion of online cloud-based platforms that promise to revolutionize farming. These platforms collect agriculture data, such as yield data, soil type, rainfall, fertility and dozens of other data points across entire fields. The promise from these platforms is enormous, causing agricultural companies like John Deere and DowDuPont to invest millions to create data warehouses. Likewise, the promise has lured new ag tech startups into the data warehouse market from Silicon Valley, to the Great Plains, to the Corn Belt. These cloud-based ag data warehouses all share one feature—they all promise to help farmers produce more with fewer…

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