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The position of cybersecurity in meals manufacturing
The director of the Indiana State Division of Agriculture says cybersecurity is turning into a bigger concern for the ag business.
Don Lamb says farmers have gotten extra reliant on new know-how.
“A part of the worth we pay is to maintain a safer system,” he says. “Once we take into consideration our knowledge going up into the cloud, our yield info, and every part all the way down to our monetary info on the farm is basically topic to somebody taking that if we don’t have good safety programs.”
He tells Brownfield producers really feel the impacts of a safety breach.
“If a enterprise has a safety breach and also you’re shopping for enter provides from that enterprise, you’re going to finish up paying the next value for that,” he says. “You’re additionally going to pay just a little little bit of value only for security from that know-how.”
Lamb says defending the provision chain from cyber threats is crucial to making sure meals safety.
Brownfield interviewed Lamb throughout the 2025 Indiana Ag Threats and Safety Summit.
AUDIO: Don Lamb, ISDA and Brad Fruth, Beck’s Hybrids
