NextGenWeb: New. Comprehensive. Innovative. » Jess Peterson http://www.nextgenweb.org Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:38:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc US Cattlemen’s Association: Broadband Deployment is necessary for Ranchers in Rural America http://www.nextgenweb.org/home/us-cattlemen%e2%80%99s-association-broadband-deployment-is-necessary-for-ranchers-in-rural-america http://www.nextgenweb.org/home/us-cattlemen%e2%80%99s-association-broadband-deployment-is-necessary-for-ranchers-in-rural-america#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:30:17 +0000 Jess Peterson http://www.nextgenweb.org/home/us-cattlemen%e2%80%99s-association-broadband-deployment-is-necessary-for-ranchers-in-rural-america I am a fifth generation rancher currently managing a cow-calf operation in eastern Montana.   I am also the director of government relations for the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association, USCA.

I would like to share with you how broadband is positively affecting the cattle industry and what more needs to be done to expand broadband to ranchers, farmers and other rural Americans.  

Broadband technologies help ranchers access up-to-the minute information on important data, such as grain prices and the price of feeders and finished cattle, not to mention the weather.   This information allows us make better decisions about our daily operations and helps optimize our success rate.

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