Estimates are that upwards of a quarter of Ontario’s farmers are using these devices – and finding that they are making information sharing and decision-making a great deal more efficient
by BERNARD TOBIN
Mark Brock, a member of the board of directors of Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO), doesn’t know what he would do without his BlackBerry. Quite simply, it’s changed the way he farms. “I don’t know how we could do the stuff for GFO plus the work at home if we didn’t have BlackBerrys,” says Brock, who cash crops 1,500 acres near Staffa in West Perth.