John Deere built an enormous trade show booth with multiple video screens celebrating 100 years of building tractors. Of course, the latest green iron was displayed too, as were numerous monitors explaining Deere’s tools for collecting and using ag data.

Here are seven predictions for what we'll be talking about in 2018 in the ag tech sector.

A number of ag tech companies have developed ag data use policies. This is a good trend and will benefit farmers. "Data Use Policies" (some companies have other names for these) attempt to answer farmers’ questions about "what happens to my data" in one single document.