I've been making software for the agricultural industry for 5 years, and I'm really not sure what to make of this.
The big problem agtech has isn't that we don't have enough "open-source agtech initiatives". The big problem is the divide between 'ag' and 'tech'. A few individuals bridge it well, but for the most part most ag people don't know about tech and most tech people don't know about ag. And often they don't want to know.
The standards mentioned are largely ignored and that will continue to be the case. Public data would be useful, but I don't see it as a game changer.
Happy to be proven wrong, but problems here aren't in tech, it's in the lack of two way communication that lets us apply it effectively to solve industry problems.
The big problem agtech has isn't that we don't have enough "open-source agtech initiatives". The big problem is the divide between 'ag' and 'tech'. A few individuals bridge it well, but for the most part most ag people don't know about tech and most tech people don't know about ag. And often they don't want to know.
The standards mentioned are largely ignored and that will continue to be the case. Public data would be useful, but I don't see it as a game changer.
Happy to be proven wrong, but problems here aren't in tech, it's in the lack of two way communication that lets us apply it effectively to solve industry problems.