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September 25, 2017
Precision Ag and Technology Articles
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Can Agricultural or Farm Data Be Considered Big Data?
Terry Griffin (twgriffin@ksu.edu)
Kansas State University Department of Agricultural Economics ‐ September 2017
I am often asked if farm data are truly ‘big data’. It’s a valid question, especially since the nature of
agriculture does not fit neatly into existing categories for most any discussion. So, does farm data
qualify as ‘big data’? In short, yes; here’s why. The consensus among agricultural data experts is that
farm data are ‘big’ once data from individual farms are pooled together with farm data from other
farms into a community. Even the largest America …
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Last month, Ashley Ellixson and I described potential damages that farmers may claim in the event of a data
breach if farm data were considered a trade secret. We (more specifically Ashley) discussed that legal
protections for trade secrets include 1) actual damages, 2) reasonable royalty, and 3) unjust enrichment. Over
the last couple weeks since posting our publication, I have been contemplating which protection will most likely
be utilized in practice. When the farm data, i.e. the trade secret, is used without permission from the farmer or
farm data owner, a disclosure of the data results and it is assumed that damages can be claimed. Specifically
when a data breach occurs, or the data are disclosed, the farmer or group of farmers desire to seek legal action
and determine which protection would return the greatest compensation to them.
I approach the issue such that I were retained to serve as an expert witness to deliver testimony. In this
scenario, I would perform forensic economics to compare the relative value that the farmer would realize under
each of the three protections in the event that farm data were considered to be a trade secret of the farm
(Ellixson and Griffin, 2016). Ashely defines the three damages regarding trade secret protections as:
Damages may be one of three types:
1. Actual damages may include lost profits, which are typically calculated as net profits
(meaning gross profits minus overhead and expenses required to run the business).
2. Reasonable royalty rate is determined by constructing a hypothetical negotiation for licensing
the trade secret, or farm data, between the parties at the time misappropriation began. The
law assumes this hypothetical negotiation occurred and that the farmer, who ordinarily would
not license his trade secret to the misappropriator, did so willingly for a bargained‐for price.
3. Unjust enrichment seeks to return the benefit the misappropriator gained from his actions to
the farmer.
First, before addressing the three sources of damages it is important to review how the different players benefit
from the big data system in agriculture. In our definition, the big data system is a network of many farms’ data
combined into a community dataset. In this …
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