We endorse the following statements:

• Agriculture is a shared human endeavor and we have a shared interest in providing everyone the best possible, site-specific, and  data-driven agricultural knowledge
• Agriculture is a public science, where we will collectively benefit by creating a pre-competitivePre-competitive collaboration utilizes a collective approach to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to create new technologies and solutions benefiting a shared industry. Diverse efforts can be streamlined into solving systematic problems utilizing multiple industry pe... space to more rapidly advance our shared understanding of food systems, agroecosystems, climate science, and relationships between soil health,  and human health. (read more)
• A shared urgency exists in taking action to improve soil health globally and support continual improvement of ecosystem service delivery from farm and ranchland
• The majority of benefit and natural wealth creation should flow to those most directly engaged in the transformation of natural systems.   
• Knowledge is co-created, and user-generated data should be shared as opt-in and controlled by those who created it.  
• Pre-competitive contributions to OpenTEAM from each member will help pool knowledge, resources and capabilities in order to speed up the systemic challenges of farmer resiliency and ag data interoperabilityInteroperability is a characteristic of a product or system whose interfaces are completely understood to work with other products or systems, at present or in the future, in implementation or access, and without any restrictions. While the term was initially defined for informat... we seek to solve.