We’re talking about doing another GOAT-Hack at the Soil and Nutrition conference… @DanT and @mstenta came up with some ideas that are feasible that we feel would be useful for the audience, and would build on work we’ve done in 2019.
@dornawcox @sudokita Dan Kittredge, Dave Forester, other BFA members (maybe @lizj_BFA … any thoughts opinions additions?
1. Feedback sessions
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Farm Partners - get feedback from how things are working, so they can all provide complaints and frustration. We’d like this to be one of the normal sessions.
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ideas / questions - what worked, what didn’t? Data accountant - someone to help collect + organize data (not agronomist, not sales person) - less expensive, but helpful for small diversified farms? How could we do this better?
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… other ideas for this session?
2. time series visualizations, heat mapping in farmOS…
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‘time slider’, field overlay of
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weather (USDA CROWN’s API - will share info in next email)
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Soil carbon data (use actual, make some up)
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food quality data visualized (use actual, make some up)
3. Have agronomists / ag economists and farmers identify…
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Basic idea: with the tech we have (or is very close), is it useful today and how can we get there if not? IE is this a ‘packaging’ problem, and if so, what is the right ‘package’ and who’s the right customer?
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overall cost points (50 samples / year fully mapped, 1 sample per field no mapping, etc)
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utility (use only for problem areas, do year over year for long-term tracking, ??, etc.)
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cost-benefit analysis to identify lowest hanging fruit use cases
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final output: lowest hanging fruit use cases with full cost / utility analysis of data collection and management (soil, food nutrition, management data) based on the available or near-term available technology options.