Big data: a cultural and technical challenge for which agriculture has strong assets

International audience; No doubt that big data is a technical challenge. During the Euragri workshop organized in Paris on March 9th 2016 on how to tackle this challenge in agriculture, the extent to which it is accompanied with cultural transformation became more and more obvious. The workshop highlighted also that the agriculture sector has a number of assets to benefit from the opportunities given by big data. Reversely agriculture could provide an interesting application field for specialists of big data.