2020: The Year in Reverse
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Here’s a look back at the most-read articles from the Janzen Ag Tech Blog in 2020.
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How the Ag Data Landscape Has Changed in Five Years
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Five years ago, the Ag Data Transparent effort launched to help educate farmers about what happens to their data when shared with an online platform. How have things changed since then? This article takes a look.
Read MoreDo Electric Vehicles Spell the End for Biofuels?
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A recent AgWeb article made a bold claim: Tesla is the biggest threat to farming today.
Read MoreHarnessing the Wind: 3 Legal Considerations When Signing a Wind Lease
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Farming the wind is yet another way to make money on the farm by producing energy. Windmills can be contentious, however, so make sure you think through the potential legal issues down the road.
Read MoreFarming the Sun: 5 Questions to Ask Before Signing a Long-Term Solar Lease
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Would you take the opportunity to turn your farmland into a solar farm? Here are some things to consider.
Read MoreCan Ag Tech Increase Your On-Farm Risk?
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Ag tech frequently decreases on-farm risks of injury or damage to property, but are the ways that ag tech adoption can also increase a farmer’s risk?
Read MoreHere Come the Carbon Food Labels
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What legal issues will result from the coming wave of carbon labels on food?
Read MoreIs Your Farm Ready for the Swarm?
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Will today’s large machines be replaced by swarms of smaller robots?
Read MoreAnother Farmer Survey Suggests Acceptance of Ag Data Sharing has a Long Road Ahead
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Another ag data survey of farmers has been release. The results are a mixed bag.
Read MoreWhat does it mean to be "transparent" with data?
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Some thoughts from industry leaders about what data “transparency” really means and why it’s important.
Read MoreRanking the 5 Levels of Ag Data Transparency
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Not every ag tech provider treats ag data transparency with the same level of care.
Read MoreA Look at the Australian Farm Data Code
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The Australian Farm Data Code was recently published to provide best-practices for Australian ag-tech companies. How does Australia’s document compare to North America’s Core Principles for ag data usage?
Read More7 Questions to Ask Before Signing a Letter of Intent to Build an Anaerobic Digester
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Anaerobic digesters are hot. Farmers approached to sign a letter of intent should be diligent when moving forward.
Read MoreThe FieldView-Tillable Breakup: What Went Wrong
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Think no one cares about what happens to ag data? The FieldView/Tillable break up will convince you otherwise.
Read MoreThoughts on the 40-Year Old Tractor Story
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After years of incremental change, we are still waiting on the revolution.
Read More2019: 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.
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