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What’s new: Growing awareness of the importance of cyber, including GPS in agriculture.
Why it’s important:
- Precision agriculture is more environmentally friendly and yields more food per acre with much less fertilizer and pesticide.
- 68% of large farms use some form of precision agriculture.
What else to know: Here are a couple links to items about solar activity disrupting GPS and precision agriculture:
- What if GPS goes down? Impact on agriculture.
Synopsis
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Canadian farms are increasingly connected, but this brings risks. Cyber criminals are targeting agriculture with ransomware, phishing scams, and AI-driven fraud, exploiting weak security and outdated systems. The MNP Digital Cyber Security on the Farm 2025 Report found that 82 percent of farmers believe they’ve never been attacked, while nearly 50 percent of their suppliers report they have.
