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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1997-03-19, Page 36PAGE A-16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1997. Agriculture '97 User points farmers to appropriate internet sites Cruising Neil Hemingway of RR3, Brussels is just one of several agriculturists now using the internet as a research and communication tool. Continued from A-15 which need to be streamlined and aggregated for farmers, he said. A 1996 University of Guelph sur­ vey on internet use in rural areas uncovered some of those needs. Johnson says the reason behind the study was that rural areas often don't have the same advantages for accessing emerging technologies. Of the respondents, 78 per cent, strongly agreed and 20.1 per cent agreed it was important that rural residents get on-line. Fifty-eight per cent said they used the internet for information while 42 per cent used is as a com­ munication link. The majority of those who used it for communica­ tion did it for personal reasons, while a large majority of the infor­ mation users were logging on for business purposes. Close to 100 per cent saw the internet as a useful tool for gather­ ing information. Only one per cent of those surveyed felt the internet wasn't of any use, or had no opin­ ion. When asked what the biggest obstacles were to rural residents getting on line, the number one response was lack of knowledge and training. To serve as a starting point for agricultural internet users, Johnson suggests checking out the web pages of Ontario Agriculture and CAFFEINE (Canadian Agriculture, Farm and Food; Extensive Informa­ tion Network and Exchange) to gel information on everything from market values and weather with rel­ ative ease. "If a market is going to fall apart, I can know that today," says Hem­ ingway. With so much information avail­ able al the touch of a finger, learn­ ing to manage it can be one of the biggest challenges. "You can sit down at the computer and before you know it, 40 minutes have passed," says Hemingway. "Il's like anything else that's new. You pour hours into it at first, then realize it's just another tool at your disposal. Once the novelty wears off, you'll use it as efficiently as everything else." Johnson says the internet is evolving very quickly so those with busy schedules will be able to access the information more easily. "The system is becoming more user-friendly. We're collecting the needles in our haystack." Johnson believes that as the inter­ net becomes increasingly user-driv­ en rather than product driven, more people will come on-line. "Before internet, if you had a question, you had to find the resource person and contact them. You had to get infor­ mation from them on publications and magazines to read, then find the article. With internet that is all available to you at one sitting." That you may not find it without gathering some surplus is inevitable. "It's about being 100 per cent referable. There is some good information and some bad, but you have to separate the wheat from the chaffe," Johnston says. Johnston sees the number of peo­ ple up to the challenge increasing in the future. "We're now in a flat period of growth. Some will say we've peaked, but I believe we're just entering into the final stage of people realizing and saying, 'We need this'." Hemingway has seen the interest peak first hand. Having recently completed a course through the University of Texas, he noticed how the conversation had changed in the second year from the first. "In the beginning, there was talk about things like free trade and its effects. The second year, everyone was exchanging e-mail addresses. It was amazing." 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