Wonky row crops and 'possessed' tractors: The surprising impact of solar storms on modern farming

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When the sun's fury disrupts high-tech farming, precision turns to chaos.

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[Meteoric Marmot]

Obviously the designers of these farm machines failed to consider the possibility of GPS disruptions. Good programming practice would include "sanity checks" on the incoming data so that the software could either halt the machine or resort to less accurate position data from inertial guidance.