SANET hits the big time

Willie Lockeretz (WLockeretz@infonet.tufts.edu)
Fri, 22 Mar 96 10:24:07 EST

Yesterday, the AP wire carried a story about farmers' use of the Internet
for marketing, technical information, discussions, etc. Here is an excerpt
of special interest here:

"There are more and more agricultural resources coming onto the net all the
time," said David Katz, who launched a World Wide Web site for the
agricultural information clearinghouse agAccess last year.
Electronic mail, or e-mail, is particularly useful to farmers who can't sit
by the phone waiting for answers to technical questions, Katz said. . . .
With e-mail, you also can subscribe to mailing lists or join an
agriculture-oriented news group like SANET, the Sustainable Agriculture
Network, where members converse by posting messages onto a cyberspace
bulletin board. . . .

William Lockeretz
Tufts University