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SMS in Farming
Free Text Service Brings you Prices -
8 July 2004
A new text messaging service has been
launched which allows Welsh farmers to receive a
guide market price for their animals by mobile
phone, reports the
Daily Post.
"To use the free text messaging service,
users must sign up via a simple registration
process available on the new HCC website,
www.hccmpw.org.
The service means that, once registered, the
mobile phone owner will be able to receive
market prices in an instant - no matter where
they are".
Mobile Phone Campaign Helps Employ Crop
Pickers - 1 June 2004
Mobile phones are coming to the rescue of
fruit and vegetable growers looking for help to
pick their crops, reports Australia's
ABC News.
"The Federal Department of Employment has
paired up with the National Harvest Labour
Information Service in a scheme to 'text' the
unemployed about where workers are wanted.
Trialed in March in South Australia and
Victoria, and then in Queensland in May; the
Territory is the next to take part in the sms
initiative to get workers into the orchards and
fields.
"It is expected that thousands of text
messages by mobile phone will be sent to
encourage the long-term unemployed to make the
most of the Territory's upcoming mango harvest
work."
Texting feed help for Ulster farmers -
3 Dec 2003
Telephone technology is helping Northern
Ireland farmers to assess their livestock feed
supplies this winter, according to
The Belfast Telegraph.
"Thanks to text messaging, Belfast-based
United Feeds is keeping them abreast of costs
during the most intensive feeding period of the
year.
Sent free of charge up to three times a week,
the text messages contain up-to-the-minute
trading prices as set on the world feeds market,
providing farmers with an independent pricing
reference to aid their purchasing decisions."
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