The NFF consider reliable broadband and telephone services as not only essential for survival in the Australian bush, they are also crucial to the creation of new opportunities in agriculture. State-of-the-art tools such as Big Data and fast internet greatly increase on-farm productivity by enabling farmers to digitally analyse soil moisture, meteorological records and satellite imagery.
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