Farmers May Pay A High Price For Using Data

NPR presents a brief (3 minute listen) discussion about how US farmers' use of The Climate Company to manage their farmland may jeopardize their long-standing relationships with land owners from their landlords. Tillable, a farmland lease broker, had entertained a relationship with the company in possession of the productivity data farmers pay them to collect and manage for their benefit. Farmers suspect this cozy arrangement may in fact cause their own information to be used against them to great detriment. 

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