DirectAg.com is a team of people with over 100 years of combined agricultural experience. Together with its partner companies, DirectAg.com offers a new way to purchase the products and access the information you need for farming today. We are the first e-business to give you the freedom to research top ag brands, obtain immediate financing, and buy directly over the Internet. DirectAg.com is your source for useful, accessible, and unbiased ag news and information, timely market prices, weather, and more. DirectAg.com's growing community is brought together by a thirst for knowledge. No other business today is moving like farming. Prices, products, techniques, equipment, science; how do you keep up with it all? We believe that DirectAg.com can help, just like any of the other tools you use each day. DirectAg.com is powerful and always evolving. We've designed it to be customizable-to "fit in your hand"-so you can get the information you need quickly and easily, and then go out and put it to work.
- Industries: agriculture
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: business directory, news
- Region: World
A Complete Marketplace For All Participants In Agriculture, Where Crop Producers And Livestock Farmers Can Come Together And Do Business Without Having To Step A Foot Off Their Farms.Farms.com was started in 1995 by cattle farmer Ben Zaitz. Zaitz grew up on a dairy farm and was dissatisfied as hard times hit the dairy business. He had a vision of creating," a complete marketplace for all participants in agriculture, where crop producers and livestock farmers could come together and do business without having to step a foot off their farms." Some of Zaitz's dairy business buddies poked gentle fun when he developed his first Web site called COW (Cattle Offerings Worldwide), which displayed classified ads for cattle. Not a lot of farmers were hooked up to the Internet four years ago. Now its estimated that up to 60% of family farms are online.COW has since become Farms.com, which provides an arena for real-time farm auctions and trading. Close to 100,000 farmers and people in agribusiness use this site every month. Millions of dollars in cattle, agricultural chemicals, pigs, feed & grain commodities, poultry and egg products, and animal healthcare products are traded every month.Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass, a leading Internet analyst, in its report Resizing Online Business Trade, predicts that B2B (Business to Business) e-commerce will hit a total of $1.3 trillion by 2004, accounting for 9.4% of total U.S. business sales. Varda Lief, a senior analyst at Forrester specializing in e-commerce, says B2B transactions will far surpass business-to-consumer deals and dwarf giants like eBay and Amazon.com in revenue and sales.
- Industries: farming, agriculture, farm equipment, food, agriculture,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: forward auction, business directory, news, exchange,
- Region: World
Offers a variety of services accessible through Web site, including employment listings, online auctions, supplier listings, tradeshow information, discussion forums, classified ads, daily market prices, foodservice books, industry news, and editorials.
- Industries: food, agriculture,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: product catalog, business directory,
- Region: World
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