Autosteer, variable-rate prescriptions, weed maps pushed to the cab mid-field — none of it works if the machine can't hold a connection. In rural Montana, dead zones are real, and "one bar" in town goes to nothing at the section's edge.
FarmLink is how we solved that for our own operations, then productized it: satellite broadband with LTE failover, plus a local RTK base station installed by the same crew that handles SoilOptix mapping and FarmDefender™ commissioning. The result: ±2.5 cm corrections from a base station you own, and a connection that doesn't drop during a pass.
What FarmLink actually does
Farm connectivity is usually two problems stacked: internet coverage gaps and RTK corrections that degrade over distance. FarmLink addresses both.
For internet: satellite broadband puts 100+ Mbps on the farm regardless of cell coverage — fixed at the shop or mobile on the machine — with automatic LTE failover when the satellite briefly reorients. Prescription maps load. As-applied data uploads.
For RTK: a local base station at the shop, grain site, or farmstead delivers corrections via NTRIP to any modern receiver. You get sub-2-inch passes instead of the 3–4 inch results from a correction network base forty miles away, at lower latency, with no dependency on a vendor network staying operational.
FarmDefender™ ships with FarmLink onboard, so if you're running spot spraying, the connectivity is already there. For seeders, sprayers, and grain carts, we configure FarmLink to feed RTK corrections via NTRIP to whatever receiver brand you run.