Farmers are increasingly trying to improve productivity and profitability with farm management software systems. Those systems generate vast quantities of data about the farms on which they’re used, however, who owns and has rights to that data is unclear.

Worldwide, more and more farmers are using big-data software systems to increase farm productivity and profitability. A major and often-cited barrier to more widespread adoption, however, is the lack of farmer trust when it comes to data ownership.

Is the ADT initiative in the U.S. the right way to put Canada’s farms in control of their data too?

The soil analytics company completes third-party verification as a simple, clear, trustworthy data provider.

Here’s a look at EU farm groups’ recently published Code of Conduct for Agricultural Data Sharing and how that compares to North America’s Ag Data Core Principles.