The Prime Minister's holiday blues could be banished by the use of wifi tractors, according to the NFU. The farm group is laying on tractors to provide broadband to spectators at next week's Tour de Yorkshire bike race.

Mr Cameron complained this week of having to cut short family holidays to Cornwall, returning to London because of poor broadband and mobile reception – a situation faced daily by many of the country's farmers and those living in rural areas.

The wifi tractors will be positioned at two locations on both stages one and two of the tour. Tour de Yorkshire represents the first stages of Tour de France (the Grand Depart 2014).

As well as providing a service for spectators, the tractors are intended to send a message to government. NFU Vice President Guy Smith commented on Wednesday, "The NFU has been campaigning for years to ensure that rural communities are not left adrift because of a lack of access to broadband services, or other technologies available that can provide internet connections. It has become absolutely clear to the Prime Minister how crucial access is in today's online world."

The government had originally committed to rolling broadband to rural areas of the country where commercial operators will not invest in infrastructure, with a view to getting 95 per cent of the country superfast broadband by 2015, however, the initiative has been mired in controversy and this will not now be possible. The roll-out has been delayed until 2017.

In April the government’s Public Accounts Committee criticised the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DMCS) for allowing BT to gain a monopoly on contracts, get away with poor transparency practice and delay publishing its plans – the telecommunications company was awarded all 44 government contracts in the bidding process, after sole competitor Fujitsu dropped out.

In September, the committee warned, "We now have a situation where local authorities are contributing over £230 million more to the programme than forecast in the Department's business case, while BT is committing over £200 million less… and BT will end up owning assets created from £1.2 billion of public money."

During stage one (Saturday July 5), the NFU's wifi tractors will be located at the Yorkshire Dales National Park Visitor Centre in Hawes and Visitor Centre in Grassington.

At stage two (Sunday July 6), they will be at the Steel Stage event at High Bradfield, near Sheffield, and in Holme village at the foot of Holme Moss climb.