Palantir announced this week that it has been awarded a $300 mil contract from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the USDA’s “One Farmer, One File” program to gather and store information of all kinds on each farm, done in the name of facilitating Federal support to farmers. The concept, as reported by Palantir’s press release, is that all data on each farm is centralized so that various USDA agencies can inspect and make use of it, for example, by the Natural Resources Conservation Services, the Farm Service Agency and others.
Farm groups have been outspoken against the USDA shifting from support for independent, family-oriented farming and ranching and national food self-sufficiency, to instead the globalist model of import-dependence and monopoly domination. From that point of view, the “efficiency” Palantir offers to the USDA is clearly Big Brother control.
