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August 24, 2012 By Wayne Hanson
When it comes to farming, what good is wireless broadband? Seed, sun, dirt and water are the essentials that have sustained agriculture for thousands of years, so what can wireless bring to the table? And what is a CIO doing down on the farm in rubber boots?
For Fresno CIO Carolyn Hogg, the answer has to do with olive trees as wireless subscribers, tracking tomatoes from vine to dinner plate, self-driving tractors, and agricultural research and education that could boost the state’s economy and help feed the world. Hogg, along with a coalition of federal, state, private-sector and local interests, are working to secure high-speed wireless broadband to take the region’s agriculture, health care and education to the next level.
But what do farmers -- worried about water and the price of tomatoes -- think about adding information technology to their operations? Find out in the August issue of Government Technology magazine and in this video.
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If the government is involved, it can't be good...best intentions, maybe, but ultimately will be a taxpayer sink hole.
i don't think so it's can be bad to from the government involvement.... control over the privatization is required to be in control.... can't do if we lost over the control over a time... by - eSparkInfo.com
If the government is involved, it can't be good. You mean like in building the Interstate Highway System, providing farm price supports, responding to national disasters, insisting that banks can't gamble recklessly with their depositers' money and - oh - regulating telecommunications so that communications companies are forced to provide decent service in rural areas despite the low-or-no profits available?
Robert Seriously - banks don;t gamble - are you kidding. Banks screwed everyone over with fat cat salaries, bonuses and more and you the taxpayer bailed their idiot asses out. And they still do it. farm price supports are a veil for control as well. This is more big brother now for farmers.