Rural infrastructure math
Prime Future 283: the newsletter for innovators in livestock, meat, and dairy
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elon Musk walk into a bar farm. Which of them will have the bigger impact on production agriculture?
That’s not a joke setup, and there’s no riddle here. It’s Elon Musk by a country mile.
Starlink is arguably the single highest impact technology that rural communities around the world have ever seen…and even that may be an understated way of putting it.
Today, let’s look at past examples of the Rural Infrastructure Economics Problem (read on) and how it may be solved differently in the future than it has in the past, and why that makes all the difference for livestock producers in remote parts of the planet.