Closer look at Colorado and North Dakota
Tell us about your broadband access
Two broadband ISPs serve my home in a small town in Southwest Minnesota, Frontier Communications and Mediacom, apparently at Broadband Tier 2 with potential residential download speeds of 1.5 to 3 Mbps and uploads (1st Generation Data) at 200 kbps to 768 kbps . So says a new project here in Minnesota. Connect Minnesota, a non-profit subsidiary […]
Census of Agriculture 2007
The 2007 Census of Agriculture was released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS). While I was at Kiwanis for lunch. So much for this afternoon’s productivity! “The number of farms in the United States has grown 4 percent and the operators of those farms have become more diverse in […]
Durum Delivers
U.S. Durum Growers Assoc. held a You Tube Pasta Contest last October to celebrate and promote National Pasta Month. Winners were just announced, including 1st place to Sara Neubauer, Bottineau, ND, for “Durum Delivers” filmed at the Air Force Academy: Durum wheat flour is used to make pasta and bread. North Dakota has about 72% of all U.S. […]
"it’s great that he mentioned rural and broadband"
Blandin on Broadband comments on rural broadband in economic stimulus package.