Tuesday, August 30, 2011

MORE GPS TOWERS MAY MESS UP FARMERS

Recently, USA Today ran an article on how John Deere is leading the fight against Lightsquared plans to put up more than 40,000 new cell towers in rural America. John Deere is worried that the spectrum that Lightsquared wants to use will bump the GPS spectrum and lead to farmers having issues running their GPS on tractors and combines.

Since this is most likely a political fight, it may make sense for farmers to let their representatives know how important precision farming is.