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Questions of data replication are now being asked by those concerned about data ownership.
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The power to delete yourself

Controlling copies of your data is the new challenge around data ownership

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Questions around data ownership have been long discussed in and outside the agriculture sector – but are they even the right questions to ask? Some legal experts and tech developers certainly don’t think so. Instead, they argue we should be focused on questions of control and replication. Why it matters: Data ownership issues continue to […] Read more
Charles Baron and partners brought FBN to Canada in 2017, buying Saskatchewan-based Yorkton Distributors. (FBN video screengrab via YouTube)
Crops, Markets

FBN cuts yearly membership fee to zero

Ag e-commerce firm offers free accounts to farmers

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E-marketplace Farmers Business Network (FBN) has disposed of the annual membership fee that allowed members access to its various buying groups and services. California-based FBN, which has operated in the U.S. since 2014 and expanded to Canada in 2017, announced Tuesday (Sept. 15) its farmer members may now have “access to a select range of […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

Adjustments likely ahead for StatsCan’s early acreage estimates

Projections still in line with grain trade's expectations

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MarketsFarm — The results of the first acreage estimates for 2020 from Statistics Canada come with an asterisk, as the COVID-19 pandemic halted data collection early. Canada’s actual seeded area is expected to see some shifts from the projections released Thursday. “As a result of the timing of the COVID-19 pandemic, these estimates were produced […] Read more
A drone hovers over crops near Laval, Que. in 2015. (Onfokus/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Machinery

Drone data firm invests in precision ag analytics

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Southwestern Ontario crop input retailer and grain handler South West Ag Partners has made a deal to sell its precision agriculture analytics business to an expansion-minded drone data provider. Toronto-based Deveron UAS announced Aug. 28 it will trade a 9.9 per cent share of its business plus $320,000 cash for South West Ag’s Veritas Farm […] Read more
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Machinery

‘Clean’ tech adoption up for federal funding

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Provinces and territories can apply starting April 1 for chunks of a three-year, $25 million federal fund to support programs that encourage on-farm adoption of precision ag tools or use of renewables from ag waste. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Monday launched the fund, to flow through what’s dubbed the Agricultural Clean Technology (ACT) […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery

Farmers Edge to use data to edge into insurance sector

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Farmers Edge has signed a four-year agreement with global reinsurance company PartnerRe to bring precision farming technology together with ag insurance. Under the agreement announced this week, the two companies plan to work together to develop new insurance products for the agricultural market. While Canadian farmers have access to government-run, subsidized crop insurance programs, as […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Farm groups, ag tech companies agree on data privacy standards

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Reuters — A consortium of farmer organizations and agriculture data technology providers on Thursday published a set of data privacy and security principles aimed at reassuring farmers that data they share with Big Data services providers will not be misused. The non-binding principles are also meant to provide companies that collect, store and analyze farmer […] Read more

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