Smart Cities Council | Can open data take some of the guesswork out of farming? Definitely

" ... Competitors in the USDA-Microsoft Innovation Challenge were given 100 years of USDA's crop and climate records via Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform and asked to create ways to help ensure an abundant and resilient food supply. The Innovation Challenge was created as a way to support the President's Climate Data Initiative, a program intended to encourage the use of climate data to strengthen the country's food production ..."