By John G. Dillard Note: John authors a regular column in Farm Journal magazine, the most widely-circulated farm publication in the United States. Agriculture is officially entering the era of big data. Prescriptive planting relies on historical weather trends and satellite mapping coupled with soil sampling, yield monitoring and soon whatever a drone can glean from flying over a field. Using these tools, data flows from a farmer’s equipment to a central database, along with terabytes of information from farms all across the country. While this data transfer is necessary to feed the algorithms that will More…![]()
