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FiatLux posted an update 5 years, 5 months ago
5G agriculture, with sensors and drones?! The techno control freaks really do think they can tag, track, and trace everything, including living things. Those of us who prefer a free, natural, human world (and real, natural food) have a serious fight on our hands.
“The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week established the 5G Fund for Rural America. The fund will hand over billions of dollars worth of taxpayer money to the world’s largest telecom providers. In exchange, the telecom giants will build 5G infrastructure in rural regions of the U.S. — including the infrastructure needed for 5G or wireless farming, also known as ‘precision agriculture.’
“Precision agriculture involves the use of sensors in fields to measure moisture and temperature levels, satellites and drones that provide remote real-time images of crops, and even wireless sensors attached to cattle that monitor their health and track their location.
“Proponents of precision agriculture see it as a path towards increased profitability, sustainability and the ability for farmers to determine the exact optimal amount of water, fertilizers or pesticides.”
https://www.technocracy.news/big-tech-eyes-farm-takeover-as-5g-fund-for-rural-america-rolls-out/
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We are talking 500 acres of soy beans or cotton and you sit in the tractor with the GIS system and are there to turn the machine around and get the tractor back on track for the next however-long-it-takes for you to turn it around again. Big Tech-Big Ag=Monsanto
This is why I hope small farms survive…
Your view is very close to mine. Control over and managing our entire food/supply chain is only becoming more entrenched, and there is probably enough support on both sides of the political spectrum for those measures to CONTINUE to be enacted and ENFORCED.
It’s yet another issue that needs public pushback. Whether that will happen or not, I don’t know. I imagine, once this kind of thing is in place, a next step will be to put sensors not only on food packages (I think they do this already, for inventory/logistics), but in food, to track what we eat and tax/control us accordingly. That’s not as farfetched as it might sound. It’s already been proposed to put nano-sensors inside pills, to verify that patients are actually taking prescribed medication–as usual, “to save the old people” who might forget to take their medicine, because Big Pharma is oh so caring.