Mapping crops, field by field

That’s what agriculture looks like around here, according to the Belarus-based ag-tech startup, OneSoil. According to the press release:

Today, OneSoil, a precision farming startup, announced the launch of a new map, the OneSoil Map, which it has developed to allow everyone in the agriculture industry to explore and compare fields and crops in Europe and the United States – 44 countries in total. The key feature of the map is that it allows users to see how these fields have changed over the past three years (2016 – 2018). To accomplish this, OneSoil combined public data from the European Copernicus Programme and Mapbox GL JS, the latter of which helped in visualizing large volumes of ag data. The metrics included on the map are hectarage, the crop, and country crop rating.

Still processing the enormity of it all.

Free the podcast

I’m sure it’s pure coincidence, but hot on the heels of CIMMYT launching a new podcast, here comes the Open Source Seed Initiative with Free the Seed! Good to see the mainstream trying to catch up with Jeremy.

And this seems as good a time and place as any to celebrate the 20th birthday of the greatest podcast of them all, In Our Time. My work will only truly be done when Lord Bragg asks some pointy-headed boffin to “please develop that a bit” of some arcane recess of agricultural biodiversity.