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Is the laborious task of farm record keeping over? One Iowa tech founder built a solution.
Farmers aren't data analysts but they're expected to track hundreds of data points and present neatly structured data for regulators, insurance companies, and bankers. Dr. Sree Nilakanta, founder of Big Data In A Box says farmers enjoy the actual farming but the increasing demands of farm record keeping are becoming unbearable. That's why he is building a solution.
Farm record keeping is a nuisance, logged on paper, and hours of work. And even when logged efficiently, farmers don't have a way to structure the data in such a way to get meaningful data for themselves. Dr. Nilakanta's low tech…
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