Agri Star satellite aims to serve agricultural information hub
Belmont based Agri Sat founders Jack and John O'Neill, UW Platteville officials, plan a nationwide agricultural information satellite network. The system targets farmers and rural users with a tentatively 10 hours of programs, satellite dish sales tied to farming needs, and tax benefits for business use.
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Jack O’neill
John O’neill
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Agri Sat aims to link farmers with affordable satellite info
A Wisconsin plan proposes Agri-Sat a grassroots satellite service for farmers with 24 hour agricultural data from Cooperative Extension bulletins USDA market reports weather and cash grain prices. The venture led by Jack O Neill would be advertiser supported lowering farmer costs and involve UW Platteville in a program to collect edit and uplink agricultural content via the Agricultural Information Foundation.
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O’neill
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
USDA
Uw-Platteville
Jack O’neill
Agricultural Information Foundation Inc
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Agri-Sat
John O’neill
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William Smith Named Director at J I Case Co
William T. Smith named director of international marketing for J I Case Company Racine replacing John S. Kelly who died October 15. Smith oversees marketing outside North America and Europe including Africa Middle East Asia Pacific Latin America Australia and South Africa reporting to executive vice president John A. Borden.
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Middle East
Asia/Pacific
Latin America
Australia
South Africa
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