Firms urge industry players to collaborate on farm and field data IBM is urging the food and agriculture industry to work together to improve collaboration around farm and field data. Joining with Yara International, a specialist in crop nutrition and digital farming solutions, IBM is launching The Open Farm & Field Data Exchange, which aims to encourage farming associations, food and agriculture industry players, academia and NGOs to share their data. The company says sharing data allows farmers to receive higher value services, and they can be paid in return for sharing their data. It could also potentially make it easier…
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Christine Horton
Christine writes about technology’s impact on business, and is a long-term contributor to specialist IT titles including Channel Pro and Microscope. She also writes for Raconteur and is regularly featured in The Times and Sunday Times.
After partnering with Germany’s urban farming platform Infarm inside its Clapham Junction store earlier this year, M&S has now rolled out indoor farms to additional stores in Kensington, Stratford City, Bromley, Ealing Broadway, Marble Arch and Kings Road. The indoor vertical farming units deliver a range of fresh produce both grown AND harvested inside a store. Infarm says its vertical farming units use IoT (Internet of Things) technologies and machine learning, to deliver a controlled ecosystem with the optimum amount of light, air and nutrients. Each unit is remotely controlled using a cloud-based platform, which learns, adjusts and continuously improves…
