# Farming: Satellite failure ‘cripples’ farmers as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt - Host: [smh.com.au](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/smh.com.au/) - Saved: April 23, 2023 (2023-04-24T01:29:01Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/80c1afe1567d/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/80c1afe1567d.json ## What Jamie wrote Automation yields efficiency improvements, but along with it dependencies. > They are enabled with GPS tracking and can be guided to an accuracy within two centimetres, enabling seed-planting equipment to sow crops with precision to drive up efficiency, prevent wastage and boost environmental sustainability. > > All that went out the window when the Inmarsat-41 satellite signal failed. This also highlights how much farming has changed. My grandpa didn’t even have a radio in most of his tractors. Now if you take away GPS the machine just stops. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT252: Weekly Thing #252 / Elevator, Evidence, Everything](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/252/), Notable ## Saved the same week - [Accelerating Value Flow with SAFe 6.0 - Scaled Agile Framework](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2fb434d0b7a9/) (scaledagileframework.com, April 23, 2023) - [AI and economic liability - Marginal REVOLUTION](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/dbf81fac0382/) (marginalrevolution.com, April 23, 2023) - [Space Elevator](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a0cfbc6cd68a/) (neal.fun, April 23, 2023) - [Evidence - Business Intelligence as Code](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b735487756e9/) (evidence.dev, April 23, 2023) - [Stretch 15](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/12d238ff5dc4/) (stretch15.com, April 23, 2023) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.smh.com.au/national/farmers-crippled-by-satellite-failure-as-gps-guided-tractors-grind-to-a-halt-20230418-p5d1de.html