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Government agency loses farmers' data
News The Rural Payments Agency loses lost two tapes holding encoded personal information on farmers earlier this year but only informed its minister last week. Nick Herbert, Benn's Conservative shadow, told the Commons that the data loss was being...
[November 2, 2009, 8:48]
United Farmers of Alberta Improves Overall Agility of Retail Operations
White Papers United Farmers of Alberta (UFA), a farm-supply and petroleum marketing co-operative, was tracking and analyzing mission-critical information using paper-based reports generated by an existing legacy system.
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Dairy Farmers of Britain Increase Staff Productivity With Bloxx
White Papers Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFoB) is a company owned and run by British farmers in a bid to empower the providers of dairy products in the UK. At DFoB, the company had an open policy for its staff surfing the Internet.
[March 10, 2009, 0:21]
Agribusiness Portal a Ray of Hope for Farmers
White Papers The Assam Small Farmers' Agribusiness Consortium was established to help farmers in the North Eastern States of India earn higher incomes by modernizing their approach to agribusiness. The consortium wanted to collect essential information relating...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
UK farmers still suffering from government IT woes
News A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found that the agency has yet to deal with all those farmers who were paid too little in 2005 — the first year of the scheme — and has not recovered excess sums from those claimants who were paid too...
[December 13, 2007, 10:26]
A Year Ago: Europe's farmers begin to embrace Internet
News It's often said that some modern farmers are more at home at a PC than behind the wheel of a tractor, but agriculture is one sector in Europe where the Internet has yet to really make its mark. However, things are changing and farmers in...
[June 6, 2001, 6:28]
FEVEX Introduces RFID to Spanish Cattle Farmers
White Papers The Spanish cattle farmers association FEVEX (Federacion de Productores de Ganado Extensivo) represents more than 2500 farmers with 300,000 cattle, making it the largest farming group in the European Union.
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Advanced Call Center Solution Improves Efficiency, Delivering Premium Services to Rural Farmers
White Papers Juan Valdez is the face of the Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia (The National Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers) and Cafe de Colombia. The 100% Colombian Coffee logo was developed by the Federation in March 1981.
[January 11, 2008, 0:01]
Watchdog attacks 'cumbersome' Whitehall IT systems
News The IT systems at the heart of a £1.6bn EU subsidy scheme for English farmers are "cumbersome, overly complex and continue to soak up large amounts of money", according to a Whitehall watchdog. The systems, known as Rita and Oregon, are used by the...
[December 17, 2009, 8:24]
Insurance Company Streamlines Claims Processing With Web Services-Based Solution
White Papers The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is the third largest home and auto insurer in the United States. Farmers wanted to streamline its claims management process to eliminate inefficiencies. The solution, based on the Microsoft .NET Framework...
[July 3, 2007, 1:00]
Simputer 'not just a poor man's PC'
News When you think of the Simputer, do you see images of farmers, fields and cows? They had pictures of farmers in India holding it, but it was for publicity," said Desiraju, CEO of Encore Technologies, the Singapore-based company designing, making and...
[November 6, 2003, 11:00]
Ensuring Safe, Secure, and Highly Available Customer Information With Symantec Information Integrity Solution
White Papers With a wealth of customer information that must be kept both secure and available, Farmers & Merchants Bank requires a resilient infrastructure. The software solution provides Farmers & Merchants Bank with tangible business value that includes US...
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
WAP services for cattle safety
News Farmers are to make unexpected use of WAP phones, employing them to help government officials ensure the safety of British beef. Under it farmers are required to inform officials using specially designed postcards whenever a cow or calf is born...
[September 6, 2000, 12:21]
Nanotech brings out the Luddites
Talkback Engineered crops such as soybeans, corn and canola are popular in the United States, because farmers can reduce the amount of pesticides released into the environment" This is blatantly untrue, pesticide use has gone up in the US & Canada as...
[August 29, 2003, 10:49]
VelVet
Downloads This information is then recorded in a .str file, which makes it possible for other farmers/growers to trade/share information concerning the culture of such or such strains, as well as salesmen of seeds, or farmers to experience new techniques...
[September 11, 2002, 8:00]
Jaunty Jackalope's April First jape
Blog Famously inclusive, the new cut of the OS includes a modification designed to support netbook-toting Berber farmers, the last secular users of the Julian calendar and as such uncomfortable with the Gregorian calendar reforms introduced in 1582.
[April 1, 2009, 0:10]
Defra running 13 projects worth £289m
News Defra has been severely criticised in the recent past for its IT failings, along with Accenture which acted as its contractor, over payments to farmers through the agency. Nearly 20,000 farmers received incorrect payments and £37m in overpayments...
[November 17, 2008, 17:04]
Photos: Mobile mania at 3GSM
News With many farmers struggling to find a market for their produce, Ericsson is experimenting with a way to solve both problems simultaneously. Based on technology used by Swedish farmers, it uses smart chemistry to catalyse the conversion process...
[February 16, 2007, 13:46]
mySAP mySAP Supply Chain Management at Distell
White Papers Individually, Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery (SFW) and Distillers Corporation were leaders in South African alcoholic beverage markets. United, the companies were rebranded as Distell, integrated their supply chains, and initiated a focus on new...
[August 3, 2006, 0:00]
Pricing scuppers Media Player-free XP
Talkback Stop wasting taxpayers money, do something usefull, invade France, Sing lullabys to Seoul, ask farmers when they last washed their combine harvester, do ANYTHING but stop this stupidity. EU Drongocrats when will you pillocks learn?
[June 28, 2005, 6:48]
