How Can Data Boost Sustainable Ag?

Field Work

Society & Culture, Documentary

5.0 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Farmers collect a lot of data on fields, inputs, and yields. But many questions remain about how to use the data and who to share it with. Zach and Mitchell talk to Charles Baron of Farmers Business Network and John McGuire of Simplified Technology Services about what farmers have to gain or lose in sharing their data, especially when it relates to sustainable ag practices.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Zach here, and I wanted to let you guys know that field work is brought to you in part by General Mills.
0:08.6	General Mills is partnering with farmers and suppliers to advance regenerative egg practices on a million acres of farmland by 2030.
0:18.5	Well, you guys, you guys sound great.
0:20.8	Oh, yeah. We look great sound great. Oh, yeah.
0:21.6	We look great, too.
0:23.2	Yep, yep.
0:24.1	And our voices are a mixture of Fergie and Jesus.
0:28.4	Between Fergie and Jesus, that's, I wish I had thought of that sooner.
0:31.6	You can aim for that?
0:32.2	Yeah.
0:32.7	Yeah.
0:32.9	Yeah. Hey everyone, welcome back. I'm Mitchell Hora.
0:43.9	And I'm Zach Johnson. This is the field work podcast. This is a podcast by farmers for farmers where we dig into sustainability and conservation and how to make those practices work on your farms.
0:56.0	Today we are talking about the driver of the new world data and how important that is.
1:03.6	As farmers, we're collecting a ton of data about our fields, our inputs, our yields, and
1:09.3	agronomic information. There's a lot of questions that remain
1:12.3	about how are we going to utilize this data, who owns it? You know, what are we going to do?
1:17.8	What are we going to do with all this information that we've been collecting for a long time?
1:21.3	Yeah, there are a ton of data companies out there right now. It seems I learn about a new one about every single day.
1:29.8	And that's just within agriculture itself.
1:31.8	And so this is something that has really caught on.
1:34.5	It's really gotten big.
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