Faceless Bureaucrat

Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.

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Friday, February 15, 2019

The Extremes of Farming: Enlightenment Versus Romance

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Having just blogged about Netherlands agriculture and precision farming, I was struck this morning as I was skimming Twitter by a proposal t...

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Precision Ag/Internet of Farm Things

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Technology REview has a post on the Internet of Farm Things, noting the sensors on field equipment, the use of drones, the release of histo...

Thursday, February 05, 2015

Acreage Reporting

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Ever since 1933 reporting and checking crop acreages has been perhaps the biggest single workload item in AAA/ASCS/FSA's portfolio. Hen...

Monday, December 01, 2014

Farming and IT (and a Very Bad Headline)

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The NYTimes has an article today on the topic of information technology and farming, focusing on an Indiana farmer, Kip Tom, who handles...

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Land History and Precision Agriculture

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Via Marginal Revolution, here's Blake Hurst in The American (AEI) writing about precision agriculture. He argues that automated equip...

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