"As many food company executives are still figuring out how to implement radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, a data collector has put 500 case studies online to help them learn from the best - and the worst - in the industry."
2 pages., Author suggests that today's online auction sites in the consumer area may provide patterns for agribusiness in the years ahead. Describes three sites: eBay, Overstock.com and Woot.com.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23424
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 1 page., Report from an economic session of "Rural America, Community Issues," a conference programmed by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, June 12-17, 2005. Focuses, in particular, on the impact of Wal-Mart on rural communities and media.
Interview with Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, "one of the most reviled enemies of big food companies."
2 pages., Author comments on agribusiness implications associated with an article in Forbes magazine: Seth Lubove, "What will you learn from the food that seduces? More organic than thou."
