The U.S. Senate is debating a federal Farm Bill with a vote expected this week. Missouri Republican U.S. Senator Roy Blunt says the plan includes funding to expand broadband internet access in rural areas. Speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, Blunt says, “If you don’t have high speed internet, you don’t have high-speed trading capacity. So while somebody else, maybe 10 miles down the road from you, has instantaneous ability to take advantage of a market to buy or sell, yours may be just slow enough that you miss the moment.” Blunt says, “If you’re going to have precision farming, you and your equipment need to know exactly where you are, and I mean precisely where you are.
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