Farms.com Acquires www.Agri-ville.com Website

[avmayor]

London, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta. - Farms.com is pleased to announce the acquisition of www.agri-ville.com. Farms.com Ltd. is a leading provider of innovative agricultural and agri-food related information products and services. Agri-ville.com is a leading agriculture information website with a very active community of Western Canadian farmer and agribusiness users.

“We have been impressed with Agri-ville.com and the CRCS team over the years so this is an excellent addition to the Farms.com portal website community,” says Joe Dales, Vice President of Farms.com. “Agri-ville.com has some terrific content and new tools that we will introduce to our website users and we plan to add improved news, commentaries and content for the Agri-ville.com website community and increase our presence on Prairie agriculture and food issues. Farms.com is now in a better position to meet the up to the minute agri news, markets, content and interactive needs of the Western Canadian farmers and agribusinesses.”

“We are happy that a leading internet company like Farms.com is able to advance the operation of the www.agri-ville.com website and continue to provide current information for our loyal website visitor community,” says Jory Lamb, President of CRCS, the founder of the site. “Agri-ville.com is a great site, it has tremendous participation but the rapid growth of our SAP field services software business does not enable us to give the site the required focus it deserves.”

Farms.com Ltd. is a leading provider of innovative information products and services, with software solutions for the global agriculture and food industries. Farms.com can be accessed through its internationally recognized agriculture information portal, which has business services and resources for the up to 20,000-plus agribusiness professionals and livestock and crop producers who use it each day for business services and resources. The Farms.com family includes AgCareers.com -- the leading human resources website for the agriculture and food industry; Landmarketer.com – the leading agriculture real estate website and PigCHAMP, Inc. (www.pigchamp.com) -- the leading swine industry software and knowledge management company. Farms.com operates across North America with offices in Ames, Iowa; Clinton, North Carolina; Fresno, California; and London, Ontario, Canada. For more information, visit www.Farms.com.

Sources:
Farms.com
Agri-ville.com

[jensend]

great - now the cwb arguments can continue ad nauseam. don't raise grains anymore but when the cwb does disappear it will become evident that the structural changes in the grain industry over the past ten years have made the cost of the cwb irrelevant. anything extra to be taken out of the market won't be going to the producer. pretty much the same for ethanol, etc. with licenced seeds and extra inputs to produce those high yielding crops for the energy industry. the last thing canadian farmers need is 80 bu. wheat.

[AdamSmith]

great news, thanks farms.com

[TOM4CWB]

jensend,

It is too bad the cup is half empty instead of half full for you!

In the years ahead we must be innovative, creative, supportive, and have HOPE for the future. Our next generation of grain growers deserves no less. If you don't see a future in growing grain in western Canada... please allow those who do the opportunity to spread their wings and create a vibrant productive future!

Please allow us to work hard and create our own futures!

Thanks VERY much to Farm.com... I believe we have a GREAT future together...

God Bless Canada

Merry Christmas and all the best in 2007.

P.S. I am looking forward to 80bu wheat yeilds in 2007!

[wd9]

Thank-you Farms.com. The cost, maintenance of servers and the ongoing work is indeed for deepish pockets and steady committment, so cheers to you all. Happy New Year.

[dalek]

Sounds like a good potential solution. I only hope Farms.com is going to maintain the standards that Agriville has upheld on these boards, instead of the mediocre management of the boards at Farms.com.

[joedales]

Thanks dalek and the rest of the Agri-ville.com users.

One of the main reasons we wanted to work with CRCS and keep this site going and help take it to the next level was the great way they had managed the discussion boards - we have invested more of our efforts on areas like AgCareers.com and our news and expert commentaries - like AgVisiontv.com and TopManagers.ca

The combination of the two sites should be an improved and more valuable website information resource for all of our combined users.

Thanks again and we are happy to be working with Agriville.com

Best Regards,

Joe Dales
Vice President and Cofounder
Farms.com Ltd.
877-438-5729 x5013
joe.dales@farms.com

[cottonpicken]

Care to ellaborate Dalek?

I hope we have the right to say what ever we want.
Tyranny begins with censorship.Sticks and stones.

[TOM4CWB]

Cottonpicken,

I really hope there are limits we voluntarily put on what is posted here.

1. No Foul Language. The best way to spoil a good converstion is to fill it with four letter stupidity that adds absolutely nothing to the content.

2. Personal attacks are not welcome and stop good discussions.

3. Slander is illegal and won't be tolerated.

I hope each one of us will pledge to be responsible and hold up our end of the discussions... to respect and honour each other!

If we use this tool, in a responsible manner, there will never be any need for management to delete anything!

[dalek]

Cottenpicken, at times, Farms.com is managed pretty well. At other times, I've seen obscene posts and some pretty vile spam left up for days at a time.

[joedales]

Thanks dalek:

We have been working on monitoring of the chat forums - for a couple of years we were pretty short of staff and had to count on the users to let us know when there was garbage up there - it is pretty hard to watch everything that closely....we have added new people in the company this past year who will be responsible for monitoring and adding comments when they see new information....This and let us know if you see comments that are inappropriate.

Tanks again, Joe

[TOM4CWB]

Joedales,

It would be very helpful if we could edit our own postings if we make a mistake. This happens often enough that many are frustrated by the lack of ability to correct our own mistakes. Perhaps an understanding like Wickopedia that we will respect each other's statements... yet edit especially obvious mistakes?

[joedales]

Good idea - I made a couple fo typos this morning.....we are currently doing some research on the next generation of community (discussion) software and are planning to do some upgrades on the Farms.com site (long overdue) we can also test with the Agriville community - likely a June 07 timeline on this project as we are doing a lot of programming projects these days.

Thanks for the feedback.

Joe

[melvill]

So JoeDales, does anything change with the moderators like Charlie and I? Is our contact still Vickie Lamb? Or do we contact you directly?

Charlie and I can be contacted at:

charlie.pearson@gov.ab.ca
lee.melvill@gov.ab.ca

[joedales]

Hi Lee:

You can contact me directly until we get through the technology and operational transition.

Thanks and we are looking forward to working with everyone.

Happy New Year,

Joe Dales
Farms.com Ltd
877-438-5729 x5013
joe.dales@farms.com