In-Field Technologies
September 18, 2023
When agriculture began at the end of the Stone Age, the world had approximately 5 million people to feed, and few, if any, farmers were feeding people beyond their extended family, writes Bernt Nelson at the American Farm Bureau...
Market Watch
January 20, 2020
The American Farm Bureau Federation’s 101st Annual Convention and Trade Show is underway in Austin, TX. In keeping with the theme of this year’s convention, “Sustaining America’s Agriculture,” workshops focused on steps farmers and ranchers can take to enhance...
Market Watch
January 2, 2020
The House of Representatives passed Farm Bureau-backed legislation that will improve the accuracy of broadband coverage maps to better identify needs.
The Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability (DATA) Act (H.R. 4229) requires broadband providers to report more specific data...
Connectivity
July 17, 2019
The Federal Communications Commission is forming a new task force to advise the commission on how to ensure farmers and ranchers have the connectivity they need to use and benefit from precision agriculture, according to an article by the...
Market Watch
June 19, 2019
According to USDA’s “A Case for Rural Broadband,” if access to broadband and adoption of digital agricultural technologies matched producer demand, U.S. agriculture would realize benefits amounting to nearly 18% of total U.S. market production, or $64.5 billion annually,...
Connectivity
March 28, 2019
Is it possible for a couple of words on one question in the U.S. Census to create data that misleads lawmakers, regulators, and the general public about the availability of broadband internet access in Rural America? A recent report...