Source: Paul L. Hollis, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 3/21/17

How big is data in U.S. agriculture? Consider that one acre of corn can generate seven gigabytes of data. With approximately 93 million acres of the crop currently in production, that’s 145 million DVDs filled with information—from just one crop.
The amount of data in the industry has exploded in recent years, thanks in part to precision agriculture and advances in equipment and computer technology.

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