Ag Outlook 10-6-2020

GPS is critical to precision agriculture. Backers of GPS from the soybean industry were among those recently meeting with House Ag Committee Chair Collin Peterson and committee member Glenn Thompson. The appearance was prompted by the Federal Communications Commission’s decision allowing Ligado Networks to operate a terrestrial wireless network and how the group opposing it says it will threaten GPS reliability. Members of the American Soybean Association joined others in the Keep GPS Working Coalition decrying FCC plans to let the new network happen. According to the coalition’s chairman, the arrival of GPS to farms has been the biggest technical advancement the industry has ever seen.