If you read the article we posted on December 7 on the Farm Equipment web site entitled, Rural Officials Urge John Deere to Drop Campaign Against LightSquared, I'd like to know what you think about it. But first, if you don't mind, I'm going to tell you what I think.
Billionaire Phil Falcone's LightSquared wireless venture said certain users of global-positioning systems such as Trimble Navigation Ltd. (TRMB) should pay for filters on their devices that will help mitigate the interference caused by the network.
In addition to a number of agricultural organizations that use GPS to support precision farming operations that are asking the FCC to halt the LightSquared deployment because it would render GPS-enabled agriculture tools useless, several other groups including the European Union, Lockheed Martin Corp. and OnStar have also joined in opposing the new network.
In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, Jason Webster, commercial agronomist with PTI Farm, breaks the results of PTI Farm’s 2024 HIgh Speed Planting Corn Study.
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