@article{0d7535423fd049e79675d14d32374f1d,
title = "100 years of data sovereignty: Cooperative data governance and innovation in US dairy",
abstract = "We discuss a little-known but highly successful approach to innovation and data governance observed in the U.S. dairy sector. The National Cooperative Dairy Herd Improvement Program (NCDHIP) is a century-old institution that coordinates farm data collection to support research on dairy cattle breeding and genetic selection. After discussing the program's history, we discuss how its evolution can inform data governance in agriculture today. We identify three key attributes that make the NCDHIP a successful model in agriculture: overcoming free-riding with member benefits to data providers, ensuring data interoperability with uniform data standards, and controlling data access and use with cooperative governance.",
keywords = "collective action, data ownership, digital agriculture, genetics",
author = "Jared Hutchins and Brent Hueth",
note = "Figure 7 shows the basic governance structure of the NCDHIP. The primary stakeholder group is dairy farmers while government and university scientists provide technical support to the CDCB's mission. The National DHIA, the NAAB, the breed associations, and the DRPCs are all organized as cooperatives. Dairy farmers are all directly members of the National DHIA, the breed associations, and the DRPCs. They are indirectly members of the NAAB since the vast majority of NAAB members are themselves cooperatives owned by dairy farmers. Some NAAB members are instead investor‐owned, meaning investors also have a very small stake in the NCDHIP system. Each of these producer organizations is a board member of the CDCB. The CDCB receives technical support from three advisory organizations, the USDA, the Land Grant Universities, and the ADSA, through the efforts of government and university scientists. The authors acknowledge the helpful feedback and support from the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding, the participants of the NC1034 2021 Annual Meeting, and Brad Zwilling from Farm Business Farm Management. The authors would like to also acknowledge our insightful reviewers and our editor, Craig Gundersen, all of whom were indispensable in improving this research. This research was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. The findings and conclusions in this publication are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy. This research was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. The findings and conclusions in this publication are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy. 1",
year = "2023",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1002/aepp.13339",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "45",
pages = "1551--1576",
journal = "Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy",
issn = "2040-5790",
publisher = "John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.",
number = "3",
}