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America's First Ag Data Case

By Todd Janzen posted on February 9, 2017 | Posted in Industry News
A number of poultry growers have filed suit against Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms, and other poultry integrators alleging that growers’ production data was shared among integrators to depress grower payments. This is the first case where farmers’ ag data is the center of the lawsuit.
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Ag Data Predictions for 2017

By Todd Janzen posted on January 18, 2017 | Posted in Industry News
The clouds that house America’s agricultural data are going to see a lot shifting in 2017. The ag data platform space has been on a constant growth trend for the last few years. But all good things must come to an end, and I think 2017 will be the year when farmers demand results to part with their ag data.
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Aggregated vs. Non-Aggregated Data. An Important Distinction.

By Todd Janzen posted on November 24, 2016 | Posted in Data Management
Now a few years into the movement of ag data from the farmstead into the cloud, we are seeing two different models of cloud-based platforms emerge. There are cloud-based storage platforms with aggregated data sharing; and there are cloud-based platforms without aggregated data sharing. It is important for all farmers to know the difference.
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Thoughts from the (Ag Data) Road

By Todd Janzen posted on November 22, 2016 | Posted in Data Management
The past two weeks I have been on the road, traveling to Chicago and Orlando to speak at two very different ag data conferences. The first was the Big Data Dairy Management conference held by the American Dairy Science Association.  The second was AgGateway's annual conference. The audiences were different, but many of the issues were the same. Here are few of my reflections.
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Making a Federal Case Out of Ag Data

By Todd Janzen posted on November 1, 2016 | Posted in Data Management
Earlier this year, Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) with near unanimous support. Since so many of my articles about ag data have focused on the law of trade secrets, I thought it makes sense to see what impact, if any, the DTSA has on ag data issues.
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An In Depth Look at the Federal Automated Vehicles Policy

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued its Federal Automated Vehicles Policy. Although this policy applies solely to on-road vehicles, CNH’s recent introduction of a concept autonomous tractor suggests that NHTSA’s policy may have agricultural implications too.
By Todd Janzen posted on October 18, 2016
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued its Federal Automated Vehicles Policy. Although this policy applies solely to on-road vehicles, CNH’s recent introduction of a concept autonomous tractor suggests that NHTSA’s policy may have agricultural implications too.
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