The Agricultural Data Coalition (ADC) today announced its second new member this month, welcoming Ice Miller LLP as a founding member.

Ice Miller, a law firm with offices throughout the Midwest, boasts a large agricultural practice that represents equipment dealers, ag lenders, farmer-owned cooperatives, input providers, grain processors and more. In addition, the firm's data security and privacy practice has extensive legal and real-world technological experience in dealing with cybersecurity issues and protecting user-data - a tenet of the ADC's mission.

"Unlocking the potential of farm data is critical to future improvements in production agriculture," explained Anthony Aaron, a partner at Ice Miller's Indianapolis office and lead on Ice Miller's ADC membership. "With that in mind, it will be important to ensure that ADC is structured to provide a safe and secure platform to store, analyze and make data available to farmers and their trusted research partners."

Another Indiana organization, Purdue University, joined the ADC just prior to Ice Miller, adding to the diverse perspectives and vision of Founding Members.  Officially launched in March at the Commodity Classic, the ADC is currently building a secure data storage repository that will enable farmers to easily control, manage and maximize the value of the information collected on their farms.

More information about ADC is available at www.AgDataCoalition.org.