Monsanto Buys Climate Corp. Envisions Big Data Farming

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 2, 2013 @12:26PM from the circle-of-business dept.

cagraham writes "Agriculture giant Monsanto has purchased the weather analytics firm Climate Corporation for over $930 Millionl. Climate Corp, a firm founded by ex-Google data scientists and software engineers, specializes in hyper-local weather prediction which they use to recommend risk-management and crop-insurance policies for farmers. Monsanto likely wants to use this technology to boost their big data farming systems, and help better market their genetically engineered crop seeds. This news comes the same day that Monsanto posted increased Q4 losses of $0.47 per share."

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Re:Here Come The Conspiracy Theories! by NoKaOi · 2013-10-02 16:34 · Score: 0, Troll

Oh look, another "let's call everyone who disagrees a conspiracy theorists" post.
Considering how theories barely keep up with reality lately, it takes a lot of ignorance - or vested interests - to keep touting that line.
It takes a lot of ignorance to think that a theory is the same thing as a hypothesis. The existence of gravity is just a theory afterall, yet for some reason I'm not floating off into space...a climate change denialist has about as much credibility as a gravity denialist to people who actually understand what science is.