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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, March 09, 2025
Getting data from farmers is essential for evaluating the impact of climate-smart practices on greenhouse gas emissions. But getting farmers to provide that data, and keeping it private, emerged as a concern as the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities projects started being implemented.
Now that farmers and the companies and consultants who support them have embraced the need for field-level data collection and have adopted myriad methods for gathering it, ag leaders say the industry has reached the critical juncture of figuring out what to do with all that information.