Additionally what you're talking about sounds more like actions prompted by business 'leaders' and not IT staff making databases.
I do blame the mindset of 'every problem can be solved with enough data'
How do you know when you have the right data and how do you know you're solving the right problem and not causing others? So far confidence and hubris came with myopia.
How about when everyone else thinks they have the right data, but don't, you do, but can't scale because of institutional inertia and risk?
Q.E.D.
Farming and logistics are infuriatingly hard problems, toghtly coupled with the fundamental problems of signaling and distributed systems.
Agriculture effects the environment, uses shared resources, and is necessary for the continuation of human life. I would be really wary about going with a gut feeling to solve such a large important problem.