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May 14, 2019Jefferson City, MO | By: John Coffey
Access to high speed broadband continues to be a need for residents in rural Missouri. According to Republican Missouri U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, 51 percent of rural Missourians don't have access to high speed internet. Blunt says it's important for farmers in northwest Missouri to be connected through high speed broadband.
"We're going to see more and more of that with precision agriculture as world food demand is growing dramatically and the need to grow more food on the same amount of space means you got to be smarter because you probably need to do that with fewer inputs."
Blunt made his comments during a recent stop in Grant City.
Missouri lawmakers have included five million dollars in next year's budget for the newly-created Rural Broadband Development Fund.
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