Report Shows More US Farmers Relying on Internet

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A new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture says that more farmers are relying on the internet. Insert your own porn in the corn field joke here. :D

The number of farmers with Internet access on a variety of digital gadgets has dramatically increased, changing the way farms do business. Farmers say they're increasingly using the Net to speed up their work flow, improve their farming techniques, market their crops, connect with customers and retailers, and fulfill a variety of regulatory requirements.
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I could imagine social media would help many produce farmers quickly unload their crops by letting their followers/customers know when their stuff is ready. Throw up a quick tweet that such and such is ready to go to keep your customers in the loop.

Makes good business sense.
 
This is all well and good, just a shame that in the US, rural internet SUCKS BALLS!!! :mad:

I live just outside the city limits of Fredericksburg, Texas, which is only 5 miles outside the centre of town and... No Time Warner Cable, No DLS, NOTHING! I'm stuck using a crappy 3G MiFi mobile "broadband" connection.

It was that or be price gouged on satellite internet where online gaming, the main thing I do, is all but impossible to do with extreme ping times to game servers.

Time Warner Cable, stop spending money on those stupid adds, which I find infuriating as I can't even buy your bloody service, and expand your network!!!
 
There's a whole agricultural community of [H]ardware modders and [H]ackers that's ignored by hardocp. But I guess they have their own NewAgTalk forums.
I love the way they put together the cheapest GPS devices, laptops or tablets from eBay and open source GPS farming software to be able to plant at night. Too bad their tractors and rigs are so expensive that they have to work at night to pay them back.

If you like graphic ag [H] porn, check the pictures on this blog. It should be renamed Murphy's law blog.
 
If you add the farmer as a friend, you can work in the fields...
 
CMD said:
If you add the farmer as a friend, you can work in the fields...
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Apparently some people PAY to be able to do this now as a vacation. Pay money, sleep in a cottage, get up and work the fields and feed the hogs. Doesn't sound like a damn vacation to me, but to each their own.
 
With the cost of food now, we are going to have to pay just to touch it to harvest it!
 
Steve said:
A new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture says that more farmers are relying on taxpayer funded subsidies to farm stuff that can be bought from elsewhere for less than half the price.
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Fixed that for you.
 
I have some relatives in high tech farming. Their fertilizers use GPS, active soil sampling, and can alter the amount of fertilizer spread over the ground very accurately. They're all mechanical engineers and are really into technology. Another relative uses some kind of technology to track each cow to see how much they eat and what they are eating. It can alter how many oats, corn, alfalfa, whatever each cow gets. That's years old though now.

I'm not surprised at all that farmers use technology and the internet. They're some of the most inventive SOB's I know.
 
speaking of playing with their corn, what the hell are farmers doing with internets, they should be off banging something wearing a straw hat and eating cow pies.
speaking of cow pies, whens the last time here anyone had a decent chocolate mousse pie? why cant farmers go out of their way to hoe us some chocolate mousse.
 
Chimel said:
There's a whole agricultural community of [H]ardware modders and [H]ackers that's ignored by hardocp. But I guess they have their own NewAgTalk forums.
I love the way they put together the cheapest GPS devices, laptops or tablets from eBay and open source GPS farming software to be able to plant at night. Too bad their tractors and rigs are so expensive that they have to work at night to pay them back.

If you like graphic ag [H] porn, check the pictures on this blog. It should be renamed Murphy's law blog.
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Someone on the Arduino forums hooked up an Arduino and a GPS module to one of those giant combine harvesters, and made it drive itself. Nothing like using $75 in parts to drive a $500,000 machine.
 
Ripperjack said:
This is all well and good, just a shame that in the US, rural internet SUCKS BALLS!!! :mad:

I live just outside the city limits of Fredericksburg, Texas, which is only 5 miles outside the centre of town and... No Time Warner Cable, No DLS, NOTHING! I'm stuck using a crappy 3G MiFi mobile "broadband" connection.

It was that or be price gouged on satellite internet where online gaming, the main thing I do, is all but impossible to do with extreme ping times to game servers.

Time Warner Cable, stop spending money on those stupid adds, which I find infuriating as I can't even buy your bloody service, and expand your network!!!
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A lot of people will tout our business savviness as a country, and talk about how great the market economy and hardcore capitalism are, and the fact that we shouldn't have "big government" in various intdustries regulating things. But then some of them complain about something like this.

This is that great system coming back to bite you in the ass. It's not cost-effective to extend networks away from major population centers... miles of line is very, very expensive, especially if it has to be run underground. If you're the company offering the service, you'd basically never recooperate the costs necessary to put it in place, so the companies are just doing what makes them most profitable.
 
Ripperjack said:
This is all well and good, just a shame that in the US, rural internet SUCKS BALLS!!! :mad:

I live just outside the city limits of Fredericksburg, Texas, which is only 5 miles outside the centre of town and... No Time Warner Cable, No DLS, NOTHING! I'm stuck using a crappy 3G MiFi mobile "broadband" connection.

It was that or be price gouged on satellite internet where online gaming, the main thing I do, is all but impossible to do with extreme ping times to game servers.

Time Warner Cable, stop spending money on those stupid adds, which I find infuriating as I can't even buy your bloody service, and expand your network!!!
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I have the same issue. I live in silicon valley in santa clara county yet the best internet connection I am able to get is a 3G sprint data card :mad:
 
d1nxt said:
I have the same issue. I live in silicon valley in santa clara county yet the best internet connection I am able to get is a 3G sprint data card :mad:
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No his issue sounds like the realities of not expanding infrastructure, your's sounds like the issue of having a fucked up infrastructure.

I mean how can you live in the San Jose/Sunnyvale/Cupertino area the supposed home computer technology and not have Internet? Cause someone fucked up.
 
westrock2000 said:
I mean how can you live in the San Jose/Sunnyvale/Cupertino area the supposed home computer technology and not have Internet? Cause someone fucked up.
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I dont live in those places. silicon valley goes further south than that.

I dont have access to it since I live on a farm and the population density where I live is just not high enough to support the expense of better infrastructure. For now I am just waiting sprint to expand the 4G service to where I live until that happens I will continue to have less than ideal 3G.
 
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Dr. Righteous said:
Corn Porn?

Heat it up, watch it pop; gobble it up, just don't stop??

hmmm,

Needs salt.
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She said it's already salty.

Ryun said:
Oh snap, they have sheep porn now?
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Heard it was Goats.

Pogo said:
speaking of playing with their corn, what the hell are farmers doing with internets, they should be off banging something wearing a straw hat and eating cow pies.
speaking of cow pies, whens the last time here anyone had a decent chocolate mousse pie? why cant farmers go out of their way to hoe us some chocolate mousse.
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No, no. It's the farmers DAUGHTERS doing the hoeing.
 
what time is it when all of te sheep are lined up against the edge of the cliff?

MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME
 
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