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April 22, 2014
Risk Management Strategies
payments, it could pull the community bank under,
because they … credit available in that community that drives economic activity … rural America to have those
community banks and Farm Credit providing …
March 5, 2019
Agribusiness Papers
their members and to their communities.
Cooperatives provide services … commodities, support
the community philanthropically, and provide … agricultural economy and communities across rural America.
Yet …
September 26, 2017
Precision Ag and Technology Articles
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Who Can Own Farm Data?
Terry Griffin (twgriffin@ksu.edu)
Kansas State University Department of Agricultural Economics ‐ September 2017
In the previous article, the notion that farm data aggregated into a community truly fit the concept of
‘big data’ was demonstrated. For many agriculturists, the more important issue is data ownership. The
question of who owns farm data goes back at least to the advent of precision agriculture in the 1990s.
Data ownership, privacy, and security have cyclically been hot topics since then but have recently
peaked with ‘big data’. When discussing ownership of physical goods such as commodities, machinery,
and farmland, it is intuitive what ‘ownership’ means. Farm data does not fit many preconceived
notions of ‘ownership’ like these physical examples.
The legal perspective of farm data ownership has been addressed individually by Extension agricultural
attorneys including Tiffany Dowell and Shannon Ferrell and at least one attorney in private practice, Todd
Janzen. Complementing their work, I describe how economic principles apply to farm data that are
digital and have very different characteristics than physical goods. Copies of digital data can be made
at relatively zero cost and are indistinguishable from the original. Given that copies are identical to
each other and the original, very minimal control exists over what happens to that data once copies
have been made available to another party. Multiple entities (e.g. farmers, landowners, input
suppliers, soil sampling services, aggregators, lenders, etc.) may have partial access to viable copies of
the same farm data.
Applying the economic principles of public goods versus private goods and excludability versus non‐
excludability helps to make this point. Ownership of private goods implies that the owner may exclude
others from enjoying their property. Public goods are not privately owned and no one can exclude
others from enjoying these goods. To fully understand this, the concept of “non‐rival” goods need to
be considered and applied to farm data. Private goods are typically not ‘non‐rival’. Farm data are
considered “non‐rival” because the consumption or usage of data by one person does not alter
another person’s ability to consume or use that same data (see our recent paper for more details).
Classic examples of non‐rival goods are books and movies; multiple people can read the same book
without any loss of value to any other readers. Economic theory suggests that there is no loss of utility
by the next person enjoying the same book. A recent paper described examples of agricultural non‐
rival goods as weather reports, commodity market information, and farm data. The value that the
initial user receives from accessing data or information is not affected by another user accessing the
same information. Multiple entities can consume farm data without diminishing the initial value
enjoyed by the first or subsequent users of that data.
Kansas State University Department Of Agricultural Economics Extension Publication …
August 1, 2022
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August 1, 2022
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Student recruitment and enrollment programming.• Community engagement efforts• New in‐state tuition model for high achieving students• … Push for continued capital improvement funds from the state to improve infrastructure.
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Community visits
What? Who? Why … Strategic visits to KS regions and communities with student market potential and/or in areas that we lack engagement and/or there is a strategic student enrollment opportunity.
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July 1, 1996
Section 2: Considering Cooperatives
economic stress in many rural communities have
encouraged farmers … to themselves and their
communities. Four factors in particular … prosperity of many rural
communities. A new focus on rural economic …
April 1, 2014
Connecting Livestock Producers with Recent Economic Research (CLPER)
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needed and the broader community should utilize research ground-
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May 1, 2000
Section 5: Directories and Assistance
Program
This program provides community
colleges and area technical … Clearinghouse is the small
business community’s liaison with state
government … with
the Kansas Center for Community
Economic Development to …
May 1, 2000
Lists of Consultants
Program
This program provides community
colleges and area technical … Clearinghouse is the small
business community’s liaison with state
government … with
the Kansas Center for Community
Economic Development to …