Open Source Solutions for YBS Farming

About the challenge Based on the literature, Agriculture 4.0 is critical to address a number of challenges (e.g., Sustainability, Lower cost of inputs, Feeding a growing world population). Large and corporate farms usually have the scale to integrate and operate the sophisticated technologies, business processes, etc. required to take full advantage of Agriculture 4.0. Not so much for YBS farmers and, arguably, even less so for the under-represented communities. To remove this barrier for YBS and under-represented communities, we investigated Open-Source Software where there are no license charges that would be far more affordable (and more data privacy for those who have that concern). For the Farm Credit System's definition of Young, Beginning, Small producers please see Young, beginning, and small farmer lending | Farm Credit Administration (fca.gov) Get started See your professor about creating an indisciplinary team (e.g., Agriculture, Computer Science, Information Management, Business)