agriculture

US Data Investments to Support the Next Generation of Ag Innovation

While we all know about the US government’s big investments in agriculture research, their role as a big data and analytics provider is less well appreciated. Seeing the phrase ‘big data and analytics’ we think of machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and other popu;ar 21st century concepts, but the US government has been providing important data and analytics to researchers, farmers and their advisors, and ag tech companies for over a century.