[anthony_d]

I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Farmers certainly didn’t launch satellites or write the software on them, but I don’t think anyone would expect or want that.

Long ago, when I was young though, the first satellite imaging I saw was at my uncles farm. This was dedicated equipment in his home office with a simple UI with ridiculously high res satellite imagery of all the nearby land. This was way beyond anything a PC was capable of at the time. Definitely felt like he was on the bleeding edge.

[iancmceachern]

I'm saying that none of those satellite companies are running successful farms.

Satellite imaging is not farming.

[zombiwoof]

Name one farmer who doesn’t use satellite weather imagery

[defrost]

The data layer most grain farmers rely upon is often ground based radar showing rain bearing clouds ..

eg, this: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR581.loop.shtml#skip

is a "composite radar loop" that stitches together several ground based radars tuned to detect water.

Grain farmers in the wheat belt here, and elsewhere, can generally get by fine w/out sat data as long as they can have their cloud data.

What most (large) farmers heavily rely on today though is GPS - sat based positioning. That'll often be projected onto high res local imagery .. which can often come from an air photo survey or sat photography AND | OR high res vector data showing fence lines and boundaries but no actual image data (they can see out the window of the tractor after all).

[BenjiWiebe]

Hi, we farm, and we use radar, not satellite based imagery.