Evening Edition | Thursday, December 22, 2022

In tonight's Evening Edition, read about rural internet service, Mexico's GMO corn decree, and Editor Natalina Sents Bausch's travels for Successful Farming this year.

Rural Internet Service

Editor Laurie Bedord writes about rural communities' lack of access to internet service and one potential solution.

That solution is Starlink, a SpaceX initiative, that uses a constellation of low-Earth-orbit satellites to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband internet to remote and rural locations globally.

Find out how one farm family has been utilizing Starlink in the article linked below.

• READ MORE: How Starlink is a reliable internet service for rural America

Mexico's GMO Corn Decree

Chuck Abbott reports that the Biden administration officials are refusing to say more than that they were studying potential resolutions to a blossoming dispute over GMO corn exports with Mexico.

This is after Mexico’s agriculture minister said an informal agreement already existed.

Read the comments from Mexico's' minister Victor Villalobos and those from the U.S. Agriculture Department in the article below.

• READ MORE: U.S. shrugs at Mexico claim of accord on GMO corn

Successful Farming Editor's 2022 Year in Review

Editor Natalina Sents Bausch has traveled across the country in pursuit of stories and attending many ag conferences.

Some highlights include the Peoples Company Land Expo, a trip to Ohio for Hometown Hero Jane Marshall's story, a tour of Kawasaki, and more.

Did you attend any of the same agriculture industry events? Find out in the article linked below.

• READ MORE: Reporter's notebook: 2022 in the rearview