Source: Y'ALL POLITICS, 4/25/18

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., today applauded the passage of their legislation, the “Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act of 2018,” S. 2343, by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. The bill would direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a task force to identify gaps in broadband connectivity for the nation’s cropland and ranchland.  The measure also instructs the agency to develop ways to help encourage broadband adoption and precision agriculture in areas where it is currently unavailable.

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