UNIVERSITY experts are constantly working on new ways to get their message to farmers, and as the infrastructure on farms changes, it brings new opportunities and challenges. Smartphone-sawy producers are finding that Web applications and tools like Twitter can keep them up to date on hot topics better than most other methods. A visitor to the 2009 Farm Progress show in Decatur, 111., taking part in a Tweet Up ran into an interesting name: @vmdavis.
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