NPR: Should Farmers Give John Deere And Monsanto Their Data?

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/01/21/264577744/should-farmers-give-john-deere-and-monsanto-their-data

Dan Charles

EXCERPT:

Companies that are collecting these data may be able to see how much grain is being harvested, minute by minute, from tens of thousands of fields. That's valuable information,"They could actually manipulate the market with it. They only have to know the information about what is actually happening with harvest minutes before somebody else knows it..."