Fiber Connectivity for the Social Good, Presented by Clearfield

Hutchcheson is a town in southwestern Minnesota. Minnesota. It's a town of about four thousand five hundred people. There's about five thousand three hundred households. They pride themselves in football, and they've won the state's championship this last year. People are working remotely. People are attending school remotely. You need a broadband connection at every household and every business to be able to provide a productive environment. We've been building fiber access for a number of years now. A lot of that work is is is become increasingly important in a post pandemic world because we've changed. Our digital lives have changed. And you can really see that most commonly in where content is created. Our creativity used to be constrained in some ways to maybe at school or in the office And so as that world has shifted, we've worked to shift with it. So Heartland Ag was born here in in Minnesota in nineteen sixty six, and we provide precision agriculture in the area of fertilizer for the area farmers. Prior to having good connectivity, it was very challenging for us to interact with the farmers connectivity has allowed us the capability to not only bring that precision agriculture, but also to interact with those farmers in a much more proactive way on a continual basis. Broadband is really important to our community for a number of reasons. And as you know, Hutchenson, our primary business is here, focus on high-tech manufacturing, which broadband and fiber is critical to support those. So that's the beginning of the cycle here in Hutchinson. Here in Hutchison, I think we emphasize the importance of working together. And so whether it's the city, the school district, the internet and telecommunication companies, we work together each and every day. And so having a project like this, I think just showcase our to work together and what it can do to a community.