Thoughts on the 40-Year Old Tractor Story
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After years of incremental change, we are still waiting on the revolution.
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2019: The Year in Reverse
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A look back at some of the more popular ag tech blog stories from 2019.
Read MoreForget Paris?
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What US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement will mean for farmers.
Read MoreState Data Privacy Laws: The Highway to Nowhere Fast
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Can states address data privacy issues with their own legislation? Perhaps, but a patchwork quilt of different state laws only makes things worse.
Read MoreIs Vertical Integration Good or Bad for AgTech?
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Two swine industry innovators won the THRIVE-Forbes Innovation Icon Award for the products they’ve developed for raising hogs. Will the swine industry be faster or slower to adopt new technologies like these than other, non-integrated ag industries?
Read MoreSwine Innovation Summit: What you missed.
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I recently attended the Swine Innovation Summit to learn about the latest livestock tech. Here is my summary.
Read MoreTesla's Vegan Interior: a Good Idea; a Bad Idea; and a Marketing Gimmick
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Tesla just announced that its Model 3 would be “100% Leather Free.” Here’s an analysis of what that means.
Read MoreWho Should Control the Carbon Farming Marketplace?
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More opportunities are arriving for farmers to get paid for adopting “climate-friendly” farming practices. Should someone oversee this burgeoning carbon farming market?
Read MoreWill Carbon Farming Finally Show Us the Value of Ag Data?
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New tools are on the horizon to monetize ag data for farmers.
Read MoreSaaS Providers: Stop Changing the Terms of the Deal
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I logged onto my accounting software this morning and was immediately confronted with a pop-up window that informed me the terms of service and pricing scheme were changing. Again.
Read MoreThe Rationale Behind the Model Ag Data Use Agreement
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Why exert so much time and effort to create a model ag data contract?
Read MoreDrafting the Model Ag Data Use Agreement
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We have created a model agreement to address farmers’ concerns with ag data collection, use, and control.
Read MoreIs Your Electronic Signature Really Valid?
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Is a digital signature just as enforceable as a pen on paper?
Read MoreAg Equipment Manufacturers: Falling Behind Electric Car Trends
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The automotive industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation, investing billions in all-electric vehicle technology. Why isn’t the ag industry keeping up?
Read MoreBoeing 737 Max Issues are a Preview of Driverless Liability Issues to Come
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The Boeing 737 Max tragedies will force us to examine liability issues between software developers, hardware manufacturers, and their human operators. These issues have ramifications for other driverless technologies.
Read MoreThe Impossible Whopper issues a Whopper-sized Challenge to the Livestock Industry
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What does the introduction of the Impossible Whopper mean for the livestock industry? A lot.
Read MoreEPA Flyovers, Open Fields and the Right to Privacy
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In 2012, the EPA found itself in the middle of a firestorm when Iowa and Nebraska feedlot owners learned it was conducting flyovers to look for Clean Water Act violations. In 2019, we are learning about more EPA flyovers, this time in the Lake Erie watershed in northeast Indiana.
Read MoreGet Ready for Another Round of Privacy Policy Updates
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The passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) means that ag tech companies existing outside of California may still need to comply with California law.
Read MoreInternational Organization Releases Guidelines for Ag Data Research
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An international agricultural research group has created a set of guidelines for organizations using agricultural data in research projects.
Read MoreAll Electric Excavator is a Sign of Farm Equipment to Come
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Nearly every automotive manufacturer will have an electric vehicle for sale in 2019. Will we see this same trend in farm equipment?
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