The Validator is the ag industry’s first broadly-based independent data tool providing growers with subfield-level visibility to any gaps between the potential at a chosen benchmark yield level versus their actual yields, and performance comparison to others farming under like conditions.

A cooperative of growers and an agricultural data non-profit have agreed to combine their technology platforms and create a vital resource for data-driven agriculture – a neutral, secure and private data storage repository controlled by growers. The combined platforms will be known as AgXchange and will be an independent data repository commercially available through the Growers Ag Data Cooperative (GADC) where producers can control, store, view and share their farm data assets.

Farmobile, the farm data company, announced an expansion of its Minnesota Data Store.

GiSC growers will now have the flexibility to view data on both the AgXchange and FarmersEdge platforms, bringing together the hardware and software with trusted advisors to facilitate the transition from intuition-based to data-based decision making on the farm.