Farmers Remain On Bleeding Edge Of Web Technology

By: Jeff Caldwell

Though the existence of the Internet precedes its widespread consumer use by several decades, the medium as a way to communicate, find information, entertain, shop, network, and more has only been around for a couple of decades, a time in which its utility and general role in everyday life has been nothing short of meteoric in its rise.

Agriculture.com was launched in May 1995 when the Web was young. It was the Wild West of digital media development when there was no precedent for something like a website. But just like in the real Wild West, farmers played an integral role in its settlement and cultivation.