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- Agricultural Applications and Need for Broadband Infrastructure
- Donna Lunn, elginconnects
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- 7,753 jobs, or 19.7 % of County�s total is tied to agriculture in Elgin
- $558 Million in sales from farms and businesses buying from and selling
to farms
- �over $216 million farm expenses
was spent locally
- Eleview teamed with elginconnects for provincial pilot program:
- �� Elgin is an area, which has a significant mix of agricultural
production. Also, there is superb mix of rural business partners from
producers to handlers to end product processors that require the
tracking and traceability of commodity sales and identification of
loans and assignments.�
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- Loans / Liens Interactive Database
- Farm safety
- Bio-security
- Nutrient Management
- Interactive Information
- Human Resources
- Equipment and parts online transactions
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- Eleview - founded by 4 major Ontario Industry groups focused on
Electronic Data Services for Agri-Food supply chain participants
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- Partners � Elgin Federation of Agriculture, OPP, Farm Safety Council,
Ambulance Dispatch Services, Elgin County Fire Services
- Two Steps:
- GPS all farms in Elgin County and match with 911 numbers
- Conduct farm survey (over 1200 farms) requesting identification of
potential safety hazards (manure lagoons, sealed silos, propane tanks,
etc) and all information will be entered on the FIRE PRO software at
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- $60 Billion industry in Canada � 2nd only to automotive
- Ontario � province with largest number of farms in Canada
- Capital value of Ontario farms $50,529,783,505.00
- Computer use for farm management increasing
- percentage of farms with computers for farm management increased by 254.5%
from 1991 � 2001
- Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture.
- Agri-business is poised for communication technology in terms of market
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