The Decision Satellites Can't See
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Kristin Scholten is a farmer turned data scientist in the advanced analytics department at Nationwide, and she is building OpenFields, an AI prediction engine for agriculture. At the H3 Conference 2026 in New York City, she argued that crop acreage is decided months before any satellite can see a plant, and showed how she used H3 to put a crop probability on every field in North Dakota.