What a laugher. I am sure that these contracts are bloated AF. Plenty of services are available.
I remember that years ago the NOAA weather broadcast stations would include an agricultural outlook with their regular broadcast, something like current and expected moisture conditions, etc. The NOAA broadcasters made it known that they thought ending that practice was unfortunate. Yet I haven’t seen any issues associated with ending that practice, at least around here. Plenty of other ways nowadays to get that info. I suspect the same is true with this satellite business.