Another crazy week for our Rural neighbors. USDA inspectors getting threatened, more trade war and the one that stings the worst in some ways was more EPA waivers for less ethanol. With about 5 billion gallons of biofuels taken out of the mix lots of small community producers are continuing to shut down and about 2 billion bushels are on the market that wasn’t expected to be,
Tonight lets talk just a bit about Rural Broadband. I know you have heard a bit about it from the debate stage, but it isn’t just so farmers can download Netflix in the winter. Farming is increasing becoming tech dependent. From Drones to Tissue Monitoring tech is invading Rural America much more then casual observers think.