Tenant farmers: how "smart" agricultural equipment siphons off farmers' crop and soil data
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1KPVQ)
The agricultural sector is increasingly a data-driven business, where the "internet of farming" holds out the promise of highly optimized plowing, fertilizing, sowing, pest-management and harvesting -- a development that is supercharging the worst practices of the ag-business monopolies that have been squeezing farmers for most of a century. (more")