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Specialty crop importers frustrated by changes to border crossing reports

02/14/24 6:18 AM By Noah Wicks

Specialty crop importers who rely on USDA's daily data report on foreign products arriving at U.S. ports of entry say it paints a confusing picture that makes it difficult to negotiate prices with foreign suppliers.

Opinion: ‘Smart silos’ are only the beginning – why agribusiness is waking up to the data economy

06/27/23 11:12 AM By Jared Johnson

In this opinion piece, Jared Johnson, director of digital strategy at Kin + Carta, discusses how producers should embrace the data economy and utilize it in their operations as an additional revenue stream.

With growing data collection comes push for standardization

07/15/21 11:35 AM By Amy Mayer

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.

Opinion: The USDA can protect the ag industry from COVID-19 with tools already in place

02/25/21 10:25 AM By Deb Casurella

In this opinion piece, Deb Casurella with MyAgData®, urges the Biden administration to implement Acreage Crop Reporting Streamlining Initiative (ACRSI) technology.

Bayer, Prospera Technologies to work together on data collection for vegetable growers

07/15/20 7:01 AM By Noah Wicks

Bayer announced Thursday that it will team up with Prospera Technologies Inc. to create tools that track and analyze greenhouse data for vegetable growers.

Opinion: Connectivity: Key to rural prosperity

01/17/19 12:11 PM By Tom Dorr

Even with the passage of the new farm bill, the potential for reasonable increases in farm income seems not yet to appear on the economic horizon.

Opinion: Big data shows big promise for feeding the world

11/12/18 8:50 AM By Juergen Voegele

Digital innovations are set to transform a global food system in crisis.

Simple, transparent contracts needed for farm data, Congress told

07/19/17 6:40 AM By Steve Davies

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 - Farmers are worried that the data they gather when they use precision agriculture on their land will be used to make a profit – but not by them.

Facebook to power new data center with 100 percent renewables

04/12/17 1:34 PM By Sara Wyant

Facebook recently announced plans to build a new data center – its sixth in the United States – south of Omaha, Nebraska, and power the facility solely through wind-generated electricity.

Grocers step in to stop USDA from releasing SNAP data

02/22/17 10:58 AM By Steve Davies

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2017 - A six-year fight by a South Dakota newspaper to obtain retail-specific data on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program sales will likely last another year after supermarkets were able to secure a delay in the planned release of the information by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service.

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04.04.2025

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: April 4, 2025: Sen. Hoeven on tariffs, budget reconciliation

President Trump unveiled a massive tariff plan this week adding a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports, plus a higher reciprocal tariff on many U.S. trading partners. We asked Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., how the tariffs will affect producers and how farm bill elements may be incorporated into budget reconciliation.

Then, the American Soybean Association's Virginia Houston and Joe Glauber from the International Food Policy Research Institute discuss which producers could be hurt the most by the tariffs and how farmers' cost of production will increase.

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