Deer is going to space and it's tapped Elon Musk's SpaceX to do it.

The maker of tractors and combines will use the Starlink network to provide satellite

communication service to farmers to quote fully leverage precision agriculture technologies

and even the most rural of areas.

Terms of the deal undisclosed but the partnership is an industry first.

More than year in the making, spearheaded by Deere's chief technology

officer Jamie Hindman. Yeah, it opens up the world of high-speed connectivity to the

full deer tech stack for us. And so those are things like the capability to do

in field data sharing of information between two machines that might be working in the same field.

It's also the ability for remote display access, so a farm manager and

understand how a machine is operating. And another important point is sort of

forecasting the future and where culture the opportunity associated with autonomy.

We think the Starlink solution is really a bedrock solution for us to be able to build an autonomy

stack as well.

It comes as Deer looks to build out a software services

business that's less cyclical than simply making and selling machines, though the

business model for Starlink enabled connectivity is still to be determined. For SpaceX, it speaks to the Starlink business model, which at a SpaceX All Hands meeting

recently, Elon Musk reiterated.

Starlink is supplemental to terrestrial internet. It does not replace it. It is.

Stolllink does not, it does really well for like low population density areas, but it is really not going to be

competitive in high density cities. Or it's really low density situations, which is really where the need is.

So anyway, works well with other internet providers is what I'm saying.

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