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The open toolkit and newer JSON standard for reading mixed-fleet precision ag data without writing a parser per equipment brand.
The de facto way your yield and as-applied files become portable.
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The farmer-centric neutral data repository founded by universities and farm organizations: store your machine data where you control the sharing.
A working example of a farmer-owned data bank.
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The certification that an ag-tech vendor's data contract matches the industry's core principles, plus a free model data-use agreement.
The quickest way to learn to read a farm-data contract before signing one.
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The industry consortium for digital agriculture connectivity, umbrella over ADAPT, Modus, and PAIL. The specs are free on GitHub with open technical discussion; committee votes cost membership.
The standards your farm data will eventually travel on, readable free.
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The manufacturer-neutral data hub connecting machines and ag software across a hundred-plus companies, free for farmers; interoperability between vendor clouds rather than local sovereignty.
Cross-brand data routing today, with eyes open about where your copy lives.
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FAO's multilingual agricultural thesaurus: forty thousand concepts with stable identifiers, the closest thing to a universal ag vocabulary.
Canonical term identifiers if you are organizing agricultural knowledge, as we do.
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The community REST standard for plant breeding and phenotyping data, adopted by a hundred-plus institutions: a model of how an open ag API should be governed.
If you touch variety-trial data, this is its lingua franca.
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Community-curated trait ontologies for thirty-seven crop species, used by the world's breeding platforms.
Standard trait names if you record crop observations seriously.
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The five-letter codes for plants, pests, and pathogens used in labels, spray records, and machine data everywhere.
The universal species shorthand, free to look up.
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The young open schema for field-boundary data, GeoJSON and GeoParquet flavored, from the open geospatial community.
An open way to describe where your fields are that no vendor owns.
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The identification standards behind produce traceability: guidelines free to read, though issuing your own barcodes costs an annual prefix fee.
What the barcode-and-lot world will ask of you when you sell into retail.
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The open JSON standards for exchanging livestock data between farm systems, milking robots, and sensors; free on GitHub even though ICAR membership is paid.
The open path into livestock sensor data, no membership required.
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The backbone standard of ag equipment: how tractors, implements, and software talk. The AEF's public compatibility database shows what actually interoperates; the ISO texts themselves are paywalled.
Check whether two pieces of equipment really work together before buying either.
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The standard terminology and formats for soil, manure, and tissue lab test data; version two shipped in 2025 and the open farm-tech world builds on it.
Soil tests that mean the same thing across labs and software.
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The open, royalty-free standard for publishing sensor observations over REST and MQTT, with open-source servers available.
The grown-up open way to publish a weather station or soil sensor feed.
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The produce industry's case-level traceability labeling standard, with practical guidance for the federal traceability rule.
The must-know before scaling into wholesale produce.
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The European standards body's free ontology for smart agriculture sensors: soil moisture, irrigation, livestock, formally described.
A free formal vocabulary for exactly the sensors we teach.
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