Online Research & Marketing for Farmers & Market Gardeners

Learn why the internet is the most exciting new farming tool since the tractor!

• Marketing: Use the internet to increase sales through farmers’ markets, roadside markets, CSAs, PYO, agritainment, mail order, selling to restaurants or grocery stores, etc.

• Production: Best web sites to research seeds, trials, pest control, equipment, weather, & more!

• Web Site: Set up & promote your farm & products, using ag websites that list your farm web site for free!

• Research & search skills: How to find commercial-grade information, & how to tell the difference from the “junk”.

• Directory: News groups, ag forums, ag search engines & bulletin boards for marketing & production, as well as great examples of farmers’ web sites.

• Exciting new uses: Digital photography to identify pest disease; why e-mail is the farmer’s best friend (or worst friend if you don’t know how to use it); & more!

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Grower’s Guide
To The Internet

Farmers had better start preparing for internet use, as the net is being used for more & more ag-related purposes.
— Diane Baedeker-Petit, Mass. Food & Agriculture

The web has opened up Extension research to the public!
— Tim Rhodus, Ohio State University

There’s lots of great information on entomology and horticulture. The internet allows you to gather information that wasn't available to rural America in the past.
— Doyle Fleming, Wee Hoot Orchard, WA

We feel the internet will just get bigger and bigger.
— Barry Gainer, Indian River Gift Fruit Company, Titusville, Florida