farming
RSS farmingPharmaceutical giant strikes $550m outsourcing deal
News The multinational firm, which has its UK headquarters in Uxbridge, Middlesex, is farming out its application development and maintenance, as well as a range of finance and accounting support services across the company. [12 Sep 2008]
UK students outsource IT coursework to India
News A-level and university pupils are logging onto computer coding websites and farming out their work to foreign IT graduates. UK IT students are hiring coders in India to complete their coursework for as little as £5 a go. [25 Jun 2008]
Bernard Matthews streamlines order processes
News The company, which specialises in turkey farming, is using a unified electronic trading platform to process electronic orders from retailers and other customers. Poultry products supplier Bernard Matthews has streamlined... [17 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X
Comment In many cases this was a handover from father to son of trade and experience - such as occurs in farming - which ensured the prosperity and well-being of families. Written in a Florida hotel and dispatched via a free but... [29 Oct 2007]
Integrated Poultry Farming Group Turns to SAP for Fast Results and Future Growth
White Paper As Malaysia's leading producer of fresh farm eggs and chicken related products under the Nutriplus brand, Lay Hong Berhad is well aware that having real time visibility and the ability to maintain internal efficiencies are some of the... [28 Sep 2007]
Agribusiness Portal a Ray of Hope for Farmers
White Paper The consortium wanted to collect essential information relating to farming, such as weather, market data, production techniques, significant events, government policies, and new research ideas; educate farmers about... [05 Sep 2007]
Grupo Los Grobo Streamlines Business Processes and Improves Collaboration
White Paper Since its establishment in 1984, Grupo Los Grobo has evolved from a farming and livestock family business to one of the primary grain producers in Argentina. The challenge was to improve operational efficiency; enable... [11 Jul 2007]
Bovine Artificial Insemination Cooperative Saves 25 Percent on Data Management
White Paper Agire, part of the Amelis Group, is a farming cooperative specialising in bovine artificial insemination in Normandy, France. Amelis represents 12 percent of the French bovine insemination market. The cooperative wanted... [16 Apr 2007]
CFI Retail in Zimbabwe Overhauls Accounting System, Improves Productivity, Saves Costs
White Paper CFI Retail, a leader in the farming retail sector in Zimbabwe, needed to replace its disparate legacy head office mainframe accounting system with an integrated one that could link all branches and offer high levels of... [01 Jan 2007]
Insurance Company Improves Operational Efficiency 25 Percent by Improving Data Access
White Paper Grange Insurance Group is a mid-sized personal and commercial insurance company that caters to farming communities and suburban areas in the United States. The company has more than U.S.million in assets. [01 Jan 2007]
Building Internet Skills in Rural Colorado
White Paper Situated among cattle ranching and row crop irrigated farming in the Arkansas River Valley, Otero took the initiative to help build an Internet infrastructure to connect the surrounding rural communities. [23 Jun 2006]
Creating a Rural Renaissance
White Paper Despite the recent years of modernization and urbanization, large areas of China are still occupied by farming communities. The farming community recognizes that in order to keep pace with modernization... [26 May 2006]
FEVEX Introduces RFID to Spanish Cattle Farmers
White Paper 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. [10 May 2006]
Online services to cut farmer red tape
News The move comes as part of a wider strategy to improve general regulation in the farming industry. In a statement, farming minister Lord Bach said: "This will help reduce overlap and bureaucracy, and... [29 Nov 2005]
Foot and mouth IT systems need improvement, warn MPs
News MPs have warned that farming IT systems must be improved to manage any future outbreak of livestock disease, following the disastrous handling of the foot and mouth epidemic in 2001. The foot and mouth clean-up cost the... [01 Nov 2005]
