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Todd Janzen is an attorney at Janzen Agricultural Law LLC (www.aglaw.us) in Indianapolis. Todd grew up on a Kansas grain and livestock farm and now practices law in the agriculture and technology fields. Todd is the past chair of the American Bar Association’s Agricultural Management Committee and authors a blog addressing legal issues facing agriculture: www.aglaw.us/JanzenAgLaw. Contact: janzen@aglaw.us.

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Unlawfully "Tying" Ag Data Platforms Together

By Todd Janzen posted on May 25, 2017 | Posted in Data Management, Industry News

You just spent six figures on a new piece of farm equipment. Now you read the fine print and realize that you must also sign-up with the equipment manufacturer's cloud based data platform. You want the equipment, but not the proprietary data platform that comes with it. What do you do?

John Deere and Precision Planting Merger Ends Before It Begins

By Todd Janzen posted on May 4, 2017 | Posted in Industry News

If you haven't heard from now, Monsanto has terminated its agreement to sell its Precision Planting division to John Deere. Only those inside these companies really know what led to the end of this agreement, but the press releases help us piece together what happened.

Are You Liable if Your Big Data Platform is Negligent?

By Todd Janzen posted on April 20, 2017 | Posted in Industry News

Dicamba drift issues are a big concern this summer, making me wonder how willing farmers will be to trust the recommendations from their ag data platforms on when it is OK to spray. An even better question is: what happens if the platform's recommendation gets it wrong, resulting in Dicamba drift and nearby crop damage?

Ag Data and Price Fixing

By Todd Janzen posted on March 30, 2017 | Posted in Industry News

Federal law prohibits price fixing or collusion among competitors. As more ag data moves from farmers' tractors and computers into the cloud, the temptation to price fix by ag technology providers grows. Is it inevitable that sooner or later, ag data platform providers will conspire to fix prices?

Elon Musk and Agriculture

By Todd Janzen posted on March 10, 2017 | Posted in Industry News

What will Elon Musk's impact be on agriculture? This is what I kept thinking after reading his biography by Ashlee Vance (Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future) and, although the only part about agriculture was a brief period in Musk’s life working on a family farm in Canada, I think there is a lot agriculture can learn from entrepreneurs like Musk.

America's First Ag Data Case

By Todd Janzen posted on February 9, 2017 | Posted in Industry News

A number of poultry growers have filed suit against Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms, and other poultry integrators alleging that growers’ production data was shared among integrators to depress grower payments. This is the first case where farmers’ ag data is the center of the lawsuit.

Precision Perspective

Why Dealers Should Pay Attention to the Fine Print

By Todd Janzen posted on February 4, 2017 | Posted in Data Management

Buried in the Dept. of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit to block John Deere’s acquisition of The Climate Corporation’s Precision Planting division is one paragraph that got my attention:

Ag Data Predictions for 2017

By Todd Janzen posted on January 18, 2017 | Posted in Industry News

The clouds that house America’s agricultural data are going to see a lot shifting in 2017. The ag data platform space has been on a constant growth trend for the last few years. But all good things must come to an end, and I think 2017 will be the year when farmers demand results to part with their ag data.

Janzen Ag Law's The Year in Reverse: 2016

By Todd Janzen posted on December 22, 2016 | Posted in Industry News

One of my favorite end of the year activities is to reflect on the past 12 months and ask: What were the big stories of 2016?

From the Virtual Terminal

Reflections on Year One

By Todd Janzen posted on December 5, 2016 | Posted in Precision Agriculture 101, Industry News

Janzen Ag Law is celebrating our first year. What better way to celebrate than write a blog post about the highs and lows of what it meant to start a business in late 2015. Here are my highs and lows from the past year.

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