House Agriculture Rural Development Subcommittee leaders endorsed the re-approval of broadband and...
House Agriculture Rural Development Subcommittee leaders endorsed the re-approval of broadband and telecommunications loan programs during a subcommittee hearing on the 2012 Farm Bill Wednesday. Subcommittee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., said that “without a doubt” access to broadband infrastructure plays…
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“a critical role in each community’s ability to create a competitive business environment.” Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim Costa, D-Calif., said the government has “a lot of work to do” to bridge the broadband divide between the “haves and the have nots. … This is so important, especially to rural America, because we are closely reaching our ability to have access or capacity of broadband,” he said. “American agriculture is at the cutting edge around the world in this broadband technology as it relates to irrigation technology. … Broadband is being used to make our farmers more efficient and more effective. … Yet when you limit their capacity for American farmers and ranchers it has an economic impact in this global environment they have to compete in.”