[searchableguy]

That's neat. I don't have experience with farms/agriculture so pardon my ignorance.

Are there existing centralized communication systems to know which farmers are growing which crop in a state or country at what rate?

Centralized and vertical farming doesn't work with small farmers and there are too many of them but it's hard to get them to lease the land and start your own hub afaik.

With ground water depletion, lack of storage facilities, distribution channels, capital and good tooling. It's a hard problem.

Would it help/work to have a federal level planning system that farmers can use to decide which crops to grow and how. Get support through a hedge fund and be able to reuse tools.

[pkphilip]

We work with farmers in India. There is data on what is being grown in various areas but not fine grained enough or updated often enough for our purposes.

If you are in the US the reality of farming is very different there vs-a-vie the situation in India.

[searchableguy]

I live in India.

> There is data on what is being grown in various areas but not fine grained enough or updated often enough for our purposes.

Right? Do you think farmers would self report that data in exchange of getting real time data from other farms? Would they care about recommendation on what to grow and pricing?

There are lot of groups for techies online and self reporting channels but I haven't found any good ones for farmers in india. Can you list them for me if you know about them?

I would love to talk more. Email is in the profile.

[pkphilip]

It would be very difficult to get farmers to self-report anything unless what they get in return is quite tangible. I am not familiar with any network/system that does this effectively in India and at scale.