John Deere partners with SpaceX to expand rural connectivity

John Deere partners with SpaceX to expand rural connectivity

A new agreement between John Deere and SpaceX will allow farmers facing rural connectivity challenges to fully utilize their precision agriculture technologies.

Mike Kool, John Deere’s senior product manager for connected fleet, says farmers will soon be able to get the Starlink network equipped to their machines. “This is going to be game changing for our customers that are in those areas,” he said. “We’ve done a lot of extensive research over the past few years and realize 30% of crop land within the U.S.