Privacy, interoperability remain challenges in high-tech farming

Fedscoop: Large agricultural companies like to imagine a future when farmers can watch over their crops; change fertilizer, nitrogen and water distribution; and even file regulatory reports from one interface on a home computer — but the industry is still working on how to get all the systems to talk to each other.

"We're in the early stages of it,” Shannon Ferrell, an associate professor and faculty teaching fellow at Oklahoma State University, told FedScoop.

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