Farm Data Ownership - AG INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE WEST
Farm Data Ownership News Reporter It’s time for your farm of the future report. I’m Tim Hammerich. Modern farm technology is not only designed to produce more crops, but also to produce more data. The question of who owns this data, is not as clear as it may seem. Part of the problem, says Kansas State University Ag Economist Terry Griffin, is that data falls somewhere between a private good whose possession can be guarded, and a public good that’s available to all. Griffin… “And where does data fall? It's not either one really. It's kind of a weird product here we're ta...