The US House of Representatives Agricultural Committee held hearings yesterday on Big Data and Agriculture: Innovations and Implications.

Volkswagen (VW) has been in the news lately after university researchers discovered its "clean diesel" emissions were as much as 40 times higher than EPA regulations allowed.

A recent post by Greg "Machinery Pete" Peterson got me thinking that increasing values on used tractors might be reflecting a different trend — is it possible the rise in used machinery prices is a sign of farmer backlash against new technology?

I can’t help but wonder whether wide-spread adoption of data collection and sharing by poultry farmers could have helped stop the spread of the avian flu.

Agronomic farm data is unlike any other form of property. Agronomic data is unique. As a result, how much protection the law will ultimately afford farmers for their agronomic data is an open question.

Todd Janzen, attorney at Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP in Indianapolis, grew up on a Kansas grain and livestock farm and now practices law in the at the intersection of ag and technology. In this guest post, Todd addresses the question "Does Your Co-Op Own Your Farm Data?"