Joining us from a New England farm, Dorn Cox shares his vision for the future of agriculture and why open source data is the key to drive change. An expert in building connections, facilitating collaboration and sharing expertise, Dorn discusses how data not only supports farmers, but builds a system that supports us all. 

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Meet the guest

Dr. Dorn Cox is project lead and founder of OpenTEAM (Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management), a nonprofit research and education center, and research director for Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment, a working organic farm of conserved land on the coast of Maine. He also manages his family's diversified farm in New Hampshire with his wife Sarah. As co-founder of the FarmOS software platform, the GOAT (Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology) and the Farm Hack community, he is passionate about sharing open source agricultural tools, ideas, information, and inspiration to accelerate innovation and quantify environmental services from regenerative agriculture. In 2018, his work was recognized with the inaugural Hugh Hammond Bennett Award by the National Association of Conservation Districts, and in 2019, Dorn was awarded the Food Shot Global Ground Breaker prize. He has a PhD from the University of New Hampshire in Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science.

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