St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
August 19, 2015
Big Data has become one of the most significant issues in agriculture today. On one hand, it can be a golden key to unlocking higher yields. On the other, that information can potentially be used against growers.
In a new Focus on Soybean webcast, published by the nonprofit Plant Management Network, John Fulton, Big Data expert and Professor of Agricultural Engineering at The Ohio State University, breaks down the current state of Big Data in agriculture and provides recommendations to row-crop producers and consultants as they consider data service options.
This 28-minute webcast, titled “Big Data and Implications at the Farm” covers:
- Big Data and its uses for better decision making, such as hybrid selection
- The capture of data to better understand the grower’s operation and costs
- The importance of data quality
- Considerations for those evaluating data service options
This webcast is open access through September 30, 2015. Viewers can also opt to see a 6-minute executive summary version of this presentation. This shorter executive summary version is permanently open access courtesy of the United Soybean Board.
Other Focus on Soybean presentations can be viewed at www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/fos.
Focus on Soybean is a publication of the Plant Management Network. To get the most out of the Plant Management Network’s full line of resources, please sign up for PMN’s free electronic newsletter, PMN Update.
Webcasts on a variety of other crops can be found in PMN’s Education Center.
The Plant Management Network (www.plantmanagementnetwork.org) is a nonprofit online publisher whose mission is to enhance the health, management, and production of agricultural and horticultural crops. It achieves this mission through applied, science-based resources, like Focus on Soybean.
PMN partners with the United Soybean Board, as well as more than 80 other organizations, which include universities, nonprofits, and agribusinesses.
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