Digital ag stakeholders discuss future

Dan Uden speaks to stakeholders about IANR’s Digital Agriculture Hub initiative at an engagement event March 11 at the new NFarms building in Mead, Nebraska. (Madalyn Backes)

The Digital Agriculture Taskforce in partnership with NFarms hosted a stakeholders’ engagement event March 11, to gather stakeholder input on key challenges and opportunities to help shape the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resource’s Digital Agriculture Hub initiative. The taskforce hosted the event at the new NFarms building in Mead with about 30 representatives from companies, startups, governmental and nongovernmental organizations attending.

Guillermo Balboa, member of the task force, said key opportunities suggested for the Digital Ag Hub included creating trusted testbeds for innovation, building a stronger data and analytics ecosystem for Nebraska agriculture and helping demonstrate the economic value of digital agriculture. For more information, visit the Nebraska Digital Agriculture Website.

PHOTO: Dan Uden speaks to stakeholders about IANR’s Digital Agriculture Hub initiative at an engagement event March 11 at the new NFarms building in Mead, Nebraska. (Madalyn Backes)