Farmers and ranchers want to control the information their equipment collects every time it passes through a field, a survey released today by the American Farm Bureau Federation shows. Farmers also believe that creating a cooperative-style central repository for their data is the best way to enhance its security and maximize its value.

Independent Data Management's MyAgData acreage reporting service has received the first Ag Data Transparent seal through successful completion of the Ag Data Transparency Evaluator contract review program.

The data agreements are transparent and grant full data ownership to the farmer.

A new organization, the Agricultural Data Coalition (ADC), has been announced with the goal of building a data repository where farmers can securely store and oversee the information collected by their equipment.

Agrible Inc. has been appointed to the interim board of a coalition to address the importance of big data privacy, security and transparency for growers and will work to promote security principles for farm data.

Web-exclusive content for this issue includes:

• Building Customer Confidence with Timely Support Amid Spring Chaos
• Implementing Precision Data Privacy, Security and Ownership Policies
• Applying Farm Data to Improve Decision Making
• Precision Farming Dealer Multimedia
• Precision Farming Dealer’s Best of the Web

With more farm data being collected, transferred and analyzed, there is increased potential that information can be lost or mismanaged. Keeping data safe and secure is a priority for dealers, but do they have internal policies and agreements in place to do so effectively?