CNH industrial is perhaps best known for its case IH tractors and combines,

but the agriculture and construction machines the company makes to move Earth

will soon be connected by space.

CNH Industrial recently announced a collaboration with Intelsat

to provide customers a satellite option for more precise farming in the fields.

The partnership will bring connectivity to rural areas where

terrestrial mobile networks are just not available. And CNH's CEO Scott

Wine says of the industry options, IntelSAT was the best fit.

A lot of those farmers needed access to our technology that they couldn't get with our cellular networks or just GPS.

And what IntelS gives us is this multi-spatial aspect of bringing almost anywhere in the world and especially anywhere in South America and Brazil, you know, that our farmers can have ready access to this technology that they need to provide the precision

that ultimately guides their farming.

The offering will roll out first in Brazil, where less than 20% of prospective farmland

has high-speed internet access. The US and Australia will come

online next year. The timeline means CNH will be first to market ahead of rival deer, which

in January announced its own partnership with SpaceX's Starlink,

joining this podcast to discuss it.

The Space Deals, though, speak to the future of farming.

Constant connectivity is essential.

As agriculture becomes increasingly tech enabled

machines become more autonomous and as manufacturers offer more

data-based services. On this episode, CNH's wine discusses the partnership as IntelS

is poised to be purchased by SES, how space offers more value to farmers on Earth,

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