farmers
PGG Wrightson Data Warehouse
White Paper PGG Wrightson is New Zealand's largest provider to the agricultural sector, offering a wide range of products, services and solutions to farmers, growers and processors in New Zealand and internationally. [01 Sep 2009]
Barker Implement Reaps the Benefits of HP Disk-to-Tape Backup Innovation
White Paper Selling tractors, combines and sprayers to local farmers is a challenging market that's driven by an 'Either one buys others or get bought themselves' ethos. Carrying a full line of John Deere products, Barker Implement... [28 Aug 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment Haven't farmers got better things to do than downloading Countryfile and The Archers from iPlayer? So why are rural areas being left behind? UK industry was brought to its knees by the miners' strikes and power brownouts... [04 Aug 2009]
Business Enterprise Solution Helps 18 Separate Manufacturers Consolidate Into One
White Paper After consolidation, it needed to find a way to merge vital information from all the separate entities while still allowing each factory the autonomy to satisfy legal requirements and conduct business with local farmers... [25 Jul 2009]
Murray Goulburn Solves Growth and Flexibility Challenges With IBM
White Paper Farmers' co-operative Murray Goulburn wanted to introduce faster and more reliable business reporting across its nine manufacturing sites in Australia. Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Company Limited of Melbourne,... [12 Jun 2009]
Financial Services Provider Uses Operating System to Offer Innovative Work Environment
White Paper Rabobank was set up at the end of the nineteenth century as a federation of small farmers' banks. After all this time, its cooperative structure and local connections remain its principal characteristic features. [30 May 2009]
Storage Efficiency at Organic Valley Yields $750K Savings for Family Farms
White Paper Organic Valley is a leading organic brand and America's largest organic farmers' cooperative. Organized in 1988, Organic Valley represents over 1,340 farmers in the United States and Canada. Organic... [01 May 2009]
SmartDraw Case Study: H & H Gas Corporation
White Paper H & H has been in business since 1947, when they started out selling chicken equipment to local farmers. Larry Horowitz is Owner & President of H & H Gas in Windsor, Ontario. From there, they branched into selling and... [13 Apr 2009]
Dell CEO: On "steady" PC demand and farming in China
News The world's second-largest PC maker, Dell also announced plans to sell 15 different computer models to rural Chinese farmers, a huge market that will soon be flush with government cash. China is poised to shower some 800... [27 Mar 2009]
Dairy Farmers of Britain Increase Staff Productivity With Bloxx
White Paper 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... [10 Mar 2009]
Panhandle Farmers Mutual Insurance Company Attains Competitive Edge With Paperless Processing
White Paper Panhandle Farmers Mutual Insurance Company is a small company, but by any measure, also typical. Panhandle Farmers Mutual Insurance Company anticipates growing by 35% over the next several years without... [31 Jan 2009]
IT helps sloppy contract handling cost UK £160m
News The chaotic implementation of the Rural Payments Agency computer system, and the subsequent problems with payments to farmers, is flagged as an example of "serious failure of contract management". Nearly £300m of... [18 Dec 2008]
Coromandel Sugars Cuts Financial Closing Time by 70%
White Paper Coromandel Sugars Ltd wanted to unify disparate systems that prevent the business from achieving end-to-end control of sugar cane manufacturing and distribution processes and communicate with the 20,000 farmers that... [10 Dec 2008]
Consorzio Produttori Bionature Automates Processes and Ensures Product Quality
White Paper Consorzio Produttori Bionature, a poultry farmers' association, produces top quality poultry products under the Del Campo brand. Consorzio Produttori Bionature wanted to develop a standard technology for management of... [30 Apr 2008]
Defra IT - blowing budgets and showing up late
News The biggest IT project affected is the 'Whole Farm Approach' - a web-based system for the country's 120,000 farms, and farmers who sign up will be able to start simplifying the way they do business with government. [07 Feb 2008]