Are big ag tech companies harvesting farmers' data?

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Big ag-tech promises farmers a 25 per cent boost to production but what sensitive commercial data are farmers losing by signing up?

One business acknowledging it sells farm information to insurers and banks is the CSIRO's private partner, Digital Agriculture Services.

It comes as a new era in agricultural data-sharing quietly gets underway, with the Australian Agrifood Data Exchange. "It involves creating a digital platform where farmers, retailers, wholesalers, everyone all along the supply chain can hold data but in a secure way," Mr Robb said. "They will need to know how many emissions are released all the way along the supply chain for apples, wool, meat, whatever it might be."

 

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