<story><title>One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/22/one-in-three-farms-are-using-farmlogs-to-power-their-yields-with-big-data/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wooster</author><text>This number (&amp;quot;one in three&amp;quot;) is really ambiguous[0], as I haven&amp;#x27;t seen them state what they consider a farm to be. It could be the Ag Census data (~2.2 million farms), or along some subset (say non-family farms at ~90 thousand), or some farm type (I believe I&amp;#x27;ve previously seen them say &amp;quot;row crop farms&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure it seems like an impressive stat to throw out there, but it&amp;#x27;s a lot like saying they&amp;#x27;re offering a million shares of options to new employees; without the total number of shares we don&amp;#x27;t know what that means.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;agriculture&amp;#x2F;ag101&amp;#x2F;demographics.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;agriculture&amp;#x2F;ag101&amp;#x2F;demographics.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vollmarj</author><text>Happy to clear that up. We don&amp;#x27;t count hobby farms as they aren&amp;#x27;t our typical users. We are focusing on the ~280k row crop farms in the US of which over 90k have started using FarmLogs. Most of our customers have between 600 and 10k acres of land each.</text></comment>
<story><title>One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/22/one-in-three-farms-are-using-farmlogs-to-power-their-yields-with-big-data/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wooster</author><text>This number (&amp;quot;one in three&amp;quot;) is really ambiguous[0], as I haven&amp;#x27;t seen them state what they consider a farm to be. It could be the Ag Census data (~2.2 million farms), or along some subset (say non-family farms at ~90 thousand), or some farm type (I believe I&amp;#x27;ve previously seen them say &amp;quot;row crop farms&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure it seems like an impressive stat to throw out there, but it&amp;#x27;s a lot like saying they&amp;#x27;re offering a million shares of options to new employees; without the total number of shares we don&amp;#x27;t know what that means.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;agriculture&amp;#x2F;ag101&amp;#x2F;demographics.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;agriculture&amp;#x2F;ag101&amp;#x2F;demographics.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bjorkbat</author><text>Yeah, as a former farmer I&amp;#x27;m a little bit skeptical.  Last I checked the vast majority of farms out there aren&amp;#x27;t large operations, but incredibly small family-owned &amp;quot;hobby farms&amp;quot; or market gardens (what most of us would identify as a small vegetable farm).&lt;p&gt;Having known many farmers over the years, I can only think of one who would really have a use for this.  The rest would probably just dismiss it without much thought.</text></comment>