[LINK] Selling farm produce

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Who needs the AWheatBoard and all of the arrogance they have shown farmers:

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Farms Technology reaps high yields with online marketplace

Kansas City Business Journal - Suzanna Stagemeyer Friday, August 8, 2008  
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/08/11/smallb1.html

Even as technology races into the 21st century, farmers’ efforts to get 
crops to market remain profoundly 20th century.

The vast majority of grain sales still rely on a technology that’s so last 
century: the telephone.

But a sprouting Overland Park tech company offers farmers a modern way to 
nab top prices for grains: an online trading platform that lets them input 
offers at any time and check multiple buyers with little effort.

Farms Technology LLC’s service is producing high yields: Revenue has 
tripled every year since 2003 and should this year, too, as more grain had 
been traded on the system by May 1 than in all of 2007. And, CEO Jason 
Tatge said, the company has harvested only a tiny parcel of the verdant 
market.

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Cheers people
Stephen Loosley