Only a small number use social media currently. That will probably change pretty quickly. Just thinking that technology is becoming more and more pervasive in everyone’s life. Some groups just need to know how it can help them … here is one big way
A few years ago, if Bill Graff wanted to find out whether other farmers’ fields looked anything like his, he’d make some calls and check an online bulletin board. It might take him a few days, even a week, to get a sense of how his crops stacked up against others in his region.
Now Graff, 53, who grows 1,400 acres of corn, soybean, wheat and hay in central Illinois, checks his Twitter feed. “I can get a half-way decent idea of what’s going on out there instantaneously,”