Farmers would own their farm data and control its sale to other companies.
This bill would give farmers new legal rights over their agricultural data, such as crop yields and livestock information. It would make farmers the official owners of this data and require companies to get their clear written permission before selling it to others. The bill also sets rules for how companies must protect this sensitive farm information.
Today, no explicit federal laws establish agricultural producers as the owners of their agricultural data, nor are there federal rules prohibiting the sale of such data by companies without producer consent or mandating specific data security practices. This bill would establish farmers as the owners and controllers of their agricultural data, prohibit its sale without their express written consent, and require companies to maintain reasonable data security practices.
S 5459 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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