"Ultimately, based upon the data and other evidence, the court agreed that raising the lake level impacted our client’s farming operation," writes Todd Janzen in his latest blog.

"The time has come for tech platforms to explain to users whether their data will be used to train AI platforms," says Todd Janzen, in the latest edition of the Janzen Ag Tech Blog.

During the National No-Till Conference, attendees discussed the future benefits of seeding populations and row width to create a cleaner field, leading to a profitable harvest. These discussions are only as profitable for you as the data you collect in the field and the management of every individual seed.

At a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing this week in Washington, D.C., senators and a panel of precision ag experts discussed how to address common barriers to the adoption of precision farming technology, including financing, connectivity and internet access.

Veteran farmers Jim Leverich of Sparta, Wis., and Keith Wendte of Effingham, Ill., are two early adopters of precision technology.Leverich remembers using Ag Leader’s groundbreaking Yield Monitor 2000 in 1992, while Wendte recalls entering the precision arena around the same time with yield maps, GPS and grid soil sampling.

The USDA’s Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities program represents an investment of over $3.1 billion into US agriculture. The statistics for the program huge: USDA selected 141 proposals from corporations, non-profits, and universities to study ways to increase climate-smart production practices for US farmers and livestock producers.