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Among others, the farmer gained although not by using the same farm practices as before. The farmer
was better off once modern technologies were adopted and utilized to their potential. As a result, the
equipment manufacturing industry came into existence and fuel suppliers also gained by this
transition.
Now, let’s fast forward to data sensors, collection, and processing. Analogous discussions can be made
for the data revolution as for the industrial revolution. Successful farms using data will look differently
with respect to data utilization than before sensors and data collection. New segments of the
agricultural industry will emerge that never existed before. Farmers will give up some self‐sufficiency
and control over to a supplier of products, services, analysts, and platforms. However, farms that are
positioned to make the most of these opportunities afforded by farm data will be successful. That
being said, not all farms are expected to survive this transition much like not all farms successfully
transitioned from animal to mechanized power. Just like farms becoming dependent upon fuel
suppliers, farms are facing similar issues that lead to further loss of farm data privacy and a certain
degree of independence.
When we discuss farm data privacy, we often consider the concept of remaining anonymous. However,
in the big data world anonymity is no longer achievable at least in the same manner as it once was. In
their book on Big Data, Victor Mayer‐Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier describe how even sanitized
data can reveal the identity of individuals by combining additional layers of (probably publicly
available) data. Given the prevalence of public geospatial data, data from USDA, and plat maps,
recombining these layers with sanitized community of farm data are likely to disclose all the
information that were intended to remain anonymous. The underlying point that we must accept is
that remaining anonymous is no longer a viable option in modern commodity crop production once
agricultural big data systems reach maturity. This can in part be considered the cost of “joining the
grid” and would presumably be avoided by going “off the grid”.
The underlying assumption in the analogy we presented is that there will be well defined gains from
using big data, just as there were well defined efficiency gains from using mechanized power. In the
case of switching from animal to mechanized power the costs and benefits were clear at least in
hindsight: give up some self‐sufficiency in exchange for some gains in efficiency. In the case of “joining
the grid” (or participating in data systems), the costs include the loss of anonymity and relinquish full
control over farm data, but the benefits are still not clearly defined. There is a general expectation,
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