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 New Extranet provides Valuable Real-time Information for Pig Farmers The modern market place is highly competitive and UK Farmers need to provide their customers with goods that meet well defined market driven specifications.
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The Extranets are helping to build a community of geographically dispersed farms by providing a forum for sharing and obtaining information. Something Orchid have always been strongly enthusiastic about. |
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To
achieve this, Farmers need valuable statistical feedback from Processors
so that production methods can be fine tuned. This is essential as a deviation
from the specification results in a potential loss of income for the Farmer.
Although Processors have always provided feedback to the Farmer it has
usually been by Post and presented as a computer listing, neither of which
is ideal for the Farmer.
With
the increasing use of the Internet by the farming community, Orchid solution
was to build Extranets that receive the information electronically, direct
from the Processors. As soon as the information in received from the Processor,
it is available for the Farmer. The information is also presented in a
user-friendly, graphical form using real-time graphing software. The data
on the Extranet can also be ‘queried’ over several months
or downloaded by the Farmer to analyse on a spreadsheet if desired.
