In Ohio, a cooperative of growers and an agricultural data non-profit have agreed to combine their technology platforms and create a neutral, secure and private data storage repository controlled by growers. The combined platform will be known as AgXchange and will be an independent data repository commercially available through the Growers Ag Data Cooperative where producers can control, store, view and share their farm data assets.
The effort resulted from dialogues between Grower Information Services Cooperative, a grower-formed data warehouse and sharing cooperative and Agricultural Data Coalition, a nonprofit corporation formed by 14 founding members, including universities, industry organizations, agricultural groups, and companies.
GiSC has a working data storage and visualization platform and ADC developed a data storage and sharing pilot repository, featuring data connections to several precision farming data platforms. AgXchange will improve functionality and value, improve grower control over their data, and allow growers to share their data.