"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.

I first met Dr. Deems when I was a second-semester sophomore in the College of Agriculture. I had started my college experience knowing wanted a degree in agriculture but nothing more specific than that.

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.

I did some digging and present to you here 3 things to think about as we head into this dark, cold but potentially profitable season.

Identifying the members of the DMU can be difficult and getting the right introductions to people who are not only hard to find, but once identified, difficult to get to — are the cause of many lost sales.

Although AI and its simpler cousin machine learning (ML) have operated behind the scenes for years already, 2023 is the first time that AI and ML really entered the public discourse.

Agriculture’s increased productivity rates easily bump the “transformational” category over the past half century. A few tweaks from regulators, lawmakers and equipment makers can ensure that performance continues.

Major M&A activity, investment in tech stacks & retrofit kits are securing the beachfront for a whole new era for ag production.

A trip to the National Football Hall of Fame reinforces how auto dealers learned retail & service best practices from their implement dealer counterparts.

Consolidation among ag equipment dealers is an old and ongoing trend. But it has reached the point that leaders at large dealership groups now had very little in common with their counterparts at smaller ag equipment organizations.