CAMROSE, Alta. (Staff) – Farmers are driving their grain trucks past the information superhighway.
Alberta’s agriculture and food council had hoped to get farmers plugged into the internet through a debate on the upcoming barley and wheat marketing plebiscite, but farmers aren’t interested.
Only a couple of farmers have logged on to get a list of questions developed by the council.
“We realize it may not have a great impact,” said Ken Stickland, a member of the food council. The food council was originally a government body to bring agriculture and food interests together, but has since become independent.
“There’s not a lot of farmers yet using internet,” said Stickland, of Edmonton.
Farmers wanting to join the modern coffee shop debate must subscribe by sending a message to majordomo@tnc.com.
In the body of the message type “subscribe creating_tomorrow”.
Once connected, people can join the discussion group at: creating_tomorrow@tnc.com.
