It is here again — the end of another year.  For me, this is always a good time to take a look back at some of the big stories from the past year. Here is my recap of the four biggest ag law and ag tech stories from the Janzen Ag Law Blog, based upon reader feedback, page views, and reprints in 2017.

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.

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Precision farming dealers may soon have a new sales tool at their disposal to help customers monetize farm data. Earlier this month, Farmobile, a data collection, storage and sharing company, announced the promotional release of its Data Store platform that gives farmers the opportunity to sell their agronomic and machine data to vetted third parties on their own terms.