Special Report
Embracing technology in agriculture
Emerging technology is one of the most exciting aspects of agriculture.
As Indiana farmer Mike Beard walked through last week’s trade show at Commodity Classic – he says he’s reminded of exactly how far technology has come. “We were one of the first in the area with a yield monitor,” he says. “And that was in 1995 or something like that; it was really early. We’ve collected data on fields and at this point now, it’s beginning to mean something.”
And now that that data means something – he says it’s causing quite a stir in the agriculture industry. “We’re faced now with even more data that we can collect and we can share,” he says. “If I share my data with you – do I deserve anything for it? That’s the big question. If the big companies are making money off of the data that I am sharing – should I not participate in their profits?”
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