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Todd Janzen is an attorney at Janzen Agricultural Law LLC (www.aglaw.us) in Indianapolis. Todd grew up on a Kansas grain and livestock farm and now practices law in the agriculture and technology fields. Todd is the past chair of the American Bar Association’s Agricultural Management Committee and authors a blog addressing legal issues facing agriculture: www.aglaw.us/JanzenAgLaw. Contact: janzen@aglaw.us.

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AgTech Year in Reverse: 2018

By Todd Janzen posted on December 28, 2018 | Posted in Precision Sales, Data Management, Product Innovations

For the Janzen Ag Law Blog, I also spend some time looking back at the past year’s agtech developments and start to think about 2019. Here’s my list for the Ag Tech Year in Reverse: 2018.

Blockchain: Understand Before Signing Up

By Todd Janzen posted on December 6, 2018 | Posted in Precision Sales

This year blockchain moved from little-known buzzword to an early-adopter technology. If you missed it, blockchain is a distributed ledger accounting tool that promises better record-keeping and reduced transaction costs.

The Data Industrial Complex and The Right to Privacy

By Todd Janzen posted on November 21, 2018 | Posted in Data Management

Many in the tech industry are reluctant to embrace privacy regulation because of the potential to stifle innovation.

Are Tariffs Hurting US AgTech?

By Todd Janzen posted on October 12, 2018 | Posted in Precision Sales

One entrepreneur told me that the steel and aluminum tariffs were making it difficult, if not impossible, to commercialize his agtech invention.

Ten Ag Technologies that are Changing Agriculture

By Todd Janzen posted on September 21, 2018 | Posted in Product Innovations

We have been talking about the potential of aerial imagery from UAVs over the past few years, but what struck me recently at the InfoAg conference was the excitement surrounding satellite and aerial imagery from aircraft.

Common Contract Mistakes Made by Ag Tech Companies

By Todd Janzen posted on September 14, 2018 | Posted in Data Management

Tech companies often think user agreements are not that important—no one reads them anyway. This mentality instructs their lawyers to draft lengthy, lopsided, overly complex agreements that no one understands

USDA and Ag Data: Improving Productivity while Protecting Privacy

By Todd Janzen posted on August 4, 2018

The 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.

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High-Speed Planter Wars

By Todd Janzen posted on June 16, 2018

John Deere recently filed suits in the Federal District Court of Delaware against AGCO and Precision Planting, claiming their high-speed planting technologies infringe on Deere's ExactEmerge planter patents. What are Deere's claims against Precision Planting and AGCO? What are the possible outcomes?

First Livestock Data Platform Becomes Ag Data Transparent

By Todd Janzen posted on May 19, 2018 | Posted in Data Management, Industry News

MyDairyDashboard has become the first livestock data company to earn the Ag Data Transparent seal of approval.

Does GDPR Apply to North American Ag Data Platforms?

By Todd Janzen posted on May 4, 2018 | Posted in Data Management

Should a US or Canadian ag data platform — whose farmers are located only in North America — become GDPR compliant? Here are the questions you should ask to determine the answer.

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