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EMPOWERING THE AG INDUSTRY WITH REAL DATA The United States spends over $218 billion – 1.3% of GDP- growing, processing, transporting, and disposing of food that is never eaten. Each year, 52.4 Million tons of food is sent to landfill, and an additional 10.1 Million tons remains unharvested at farms, totaling roughly 63 Million tons of annual waste. Food waste occurs because of low market prices and high labor costs, which makes it uneconomical for farmers to harvest all that they produce (Nearly Eighty Percent (80%)). There is currently a lack of streamlined technology in the agriculture industry to provide accurate information that is timely and useful to industry operations.