…weekly SST data from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Citing the latest model guidance, NOAA/CPC said Thursday El Niño, as it typically does, will continue to weaken through the spring, eventually…
50 Years of School Breakfast
…said Concannon. Research using USDA data found that students with access to school breakfast tend to have a better overall diet and a lower body mass index (BMI) than did…
Plant App Pl@ntNet
…changes over time. PlantNet connects to a database gathered through its vast social network. The large, frequently updated data bank allows the app to identify visual patterns of various plant…
Simplifying the Data Ownership Dilemma
…agronomic data ownership and control for the first time. The data agreements are simple and transparent by design, and grant full data ownership to the farmer. The agreements were strategically…
AFBF Joins Initiative To Give Farmers Control of Data They Collect
…ability to precisely control where that data goes, nor transfer it from one data processor to another. The newly formed Agricultural Data Coalition will empower farmers to better control, manage…
Agri View: Foreign Trade
…the largest market in prior decades, has declined in importance as China, Canada, Mexico, Asia and the rest the rest of the Americas have risen. (For data on top export…
Bayer AgVocacy Forum: Be an #AgVocate
…CEO of The ODIN and former NASA bioscientist Charles Baron, co-founder and vice president of Farmers Business Network, a crowd-sourced program for data-driven agriculture AgVocacy Forum will be moderated by…
Connecting Drones in Real Time
…to the cloud in real time, even while operating beyond line-of-sight. The Botlink XRD is an FCC-approved cellular device that allows users to send and receive data through a secure…
Agri View: Food Protection
…information plus directives and notices, compliance guidelines, data collection and reports, and more. E. coli and Ground Beef Focus on Ground Beef (USDA) Includes concerns about E. coli. E. coli…
Agri View: Food Prices
…lowest priced eggs, and cage free production will likely remain significantly more expensive than eggs from caged sources, as data supports that production costs are higher,” he said. “Eggs from…
U.S. Should Be Better Prepared For Pests, Diseases
…of an outbreak. • More funding for the systems that safeguard U.S. agriculture. • Share data, including on animal movements, to improve disease response. (Click here to read NPPC’s testimony.)…
Agri View: Marijuana, a Hot Crop
…to these toxicants. A follow up study building on this data in 2015 determined that the trend of exposure and mortality from these toxicants increased to 85% of California fishers…
State Water Project Allocations Doubled
…to know if this winter will deeply dent the state’s historic drought. DWR’s California Data Exchange Center (CDEC) Web sites show current water conditions at the state’s reservoirs and weather…
Agri View: GMO Production
…he wouldn’t still be a farmer.” Optimistically, each winter we review our harvest data comparing our crop yield by variety to our cost of production for that crop that season,…