The solar storms that will provide us with aurora skies this weekend have an unpleasant side effect. Many farmers use GPS systems that have become inoperable due to plasma particles in the air. This prevents them from seeding and can affect the harvest.
In the United States, many farmers have stopped growing crops due to the failure of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. This is a big problem, especially when it comes to corn. There seems to be a hard deadline for planting corn, so farmers have no time to waste. 404 media He writes that the storms caused some GPS systems to be temporarily unavailable, which is essential to the accuracy of tractor RTK systems.
Chaos among farmers
RTK stands for Real-Time Kinematic and means that the soil can be seeded or planted down to one centimeter thick. John Deere tractors, among others, use this system. It turns out that the planted rows are not where the program called AutoPath thinks they are. So, if you want to do something with the crops later, like manage specific products, things won’t go smoothly.
Solar storms appear to have the strongest impact on Earth since 2003. Now farmers can just drive themselves and see how they are doing, but that doesn’t seem to be accurate at all. Many farmers have become too dependent on technology. Since the entire life cycle of such a crop is fixed in the programme, it is difficult to do without the programme.
Solar storm
In short, solar storms can affect our food, but they can also cause bigger problems. In 1989, an entire province in Canada was without power for hours due to a major blackout caused by such a solar storm.
Read more about what causes solar storms to cause disturbances.
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