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Broadband roundtable explores how Evers budget proposal will aid rural areas Broadband is a big focus of the Evers administration s budget proposal for the 2021-23 biennium, quadrupling the current investment in broadband infrastructure at $200,000. Even with all that money, experts in the field still have to figure out the best ways to invest it. A roundtable on the challenges rural areas face on lack of access to high-speed internet, or to a connection at all, was held in early April with several members of the agriculture industry in Wisconsin. Randy Romanski, secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, led the roundtable and explained that DATCP is deeply involved in the effort to get broadband out to those who need it most. ....