Big Data Comes to California Farmers with Much Sorrow

That was the news that farmers and everyone who grows some crops were talking about during this year's Tulare World Ag Expo. The representatives of major Ag companies were on the site to present the info about how Big Daga technology can be used to produce great crops. Farmers came from all over the world to check the big tractors and other ag-related products and equipment. Seed manufacturers such as Monsanto and Dupont are pushing the farmers to adopt the new Big Data tech. All the farmers did not roll down and accept the presentation provided by those seed manufacturers.

Farmers are not ready to share their planting techniques with those big seed producers. They fear that they could be used against them. Who is to blame them? A refusal to share and adopt the Big Data will keep their seed costs down. Seed producers are urging farmers to implement data-driven 'prescriptive planting' tech suggesting how densely row of seeds should be planted. Among the critics, we find the American Farm Bureau Federation that stated that those seed companies stand to win from the higher crop returns and planting denser fields