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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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