At the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, Yara International ASA and IBM announced plans for an Open Farm & Field Data Exchange, inviting farmer associations, industry players, academia and NGOs from the food and agriculture industry to join a movement to develop an open data exchange that facilitates collaboration around farm and field data, with the aim of improving the efficiency, transparency and sustainability of global food production. The two noted that today, farm and field data are typically dispersed, non-compatible and inaccessible.
Yara and IBM joined forces in April 2019, announcing plans to build the world’s leading digital farming platform (GM April 26, 2019).