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Indiana Farm Bureau sets policy

Indiana Farm Bureau set its policy for the next year over the weekend.  IFB president Don Villwock says two of the big topic this year centered on Big Data and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (or UAVs).

As for data policy he says they want to make sure farmers are protected.  “We want to reassure them that the data is their data and that the companies won’t see that data to third-party vendors,” he says.  “And profit from it without sharing revenues with the farmers.”

As for the use of UAVs, Villwock tells Brownfield there are concerns about privacy.  “Drones in agriculture are a new and growing topic,” he says.  “We think they’re really a positive tool – but we want to make sure personal property is protected and property rights are protected in that process.”

He says this weekend’s policy session is really the grassroots organization at work.  “These policies that we talked about today (Saturday) started out at a county policy meeting or annual meeting that took place and was then forwarded on to the state,” he says.  “Some of them involve local issues, some of them are state issues, and even the bigger ones involve national issues.”

Delegates from the Indiana Farm Bureau will take some of the policy recommendations to the American Farm Bureau’s Annual Meeting in January in San Diego.

AUDIO: Don Villwock, Indiana Farm Bureau (6:00mp3)

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