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THE DATA INTENSIVE FARM MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME

Marion Delport, lead data scientist responsible for data management and advanced analytics at the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP); and Jaco Minnaar, Agri SA president, former Grain SA chairperson, and one of the farmers currently collaborating in the Data Intensive Farm Management (DIFM) project in South Africa, recently participated in and shared their insights at the International Conference for On-farm Precision Experimentation in Texas.

Minnaar spoke about the

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