Getting paid for the farm data

A new software platform just released in Canada will herald a new era where (dairy) farmers are paid for data they now share for free. As the use of precision agriculture and automated farm systems spreads, farmers as a group are generating greater and greater amounts of data – data that’s very valuable to corporations and governments alike. More and more livestock barns now have automated environmental control systems. Precision feeders, each having an ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) sensor