1	Information Technology Beyond the City Limits Agricultural Applications and Need for Broadband Infrastructure Donna Lunn, elginconnects
2	Elgin Agriculture 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.�
3	Agricultural Applications Loans / Liens Interactive Database Farm safety Bio-security Nutrient Management Interactive Information Human Resources Equipment and parts online transactions
4	Spring Planting and Crop Inputs
5	Harvesting Mature Crops
6	Trucking Crop to Grain Elevators
7	Grain Elevator
8	Weigh Scale at Elevator
9	Grain Probed for Test Samples
10	Head Offices
11	Shared Electronic Data Network Eleview - founded by 4 major Ontario Industry groups focused on Electronic Data Services for Agri-Food supply chain participants
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13	Farm Safety 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 each Fire hall
14	Emergency Services
15	Bio-Security
16	Nutrient Management
17	New Manure Application Technology
18	Reading CD of Farm for Nutrients Required
19	Dairy Technology
20	Farms.com
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24	Huron Tractor � New and used equipment, parts and auctions
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27	Why Include Agriculture? $60 Billion industry in Canada � 2^nd 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 readiness
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