Welcome to AgriConnect

                 The Home of Farmsitters

What is a Farmsitter? A Farmsitter is someone who has the skills and availability to help someone in a rural situation. Vacation coverage, harvest, chores or someone to do the work while you heal up from an injury are all reasons to call AgriConnect to find a Farmsitter. We will try and find people near your community to help you and we provide our service for FREE.

Follow this link to request a Farmsitter or to become a Farmsitter. 
        http://www.agriconnect.com/farmsitters.aspx
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Welcome to the AgriConnect website, the Home of Farmsitters. This service is provided for the rural community to find help for your farm or acreage. Whether you need someone for a day or a month, there are people near you who will help. 

    We are building a network of people willing to help people.
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Changes coming --- we will be making some exciting enhancements to the AgriConnect Web site in the near future, stay tuned.

This is a new service never before offered in Canada and the response we are getting is extremely positive. Tell your friends and neighbours to sign up to be a farm sitter and you can request a sitter for FREE!    
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We are now offering this service in Alberta and Saskatchewan. We will be offering our service in BC, Manitoba in the next 6 months and Ontario by the end of 2009.
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This web site is designed as a portal web site, you should be able to navigate to various sites to get the information you need then come back to this site to look up the next vital piece of information. Almost everything you need in an agricultural based web site exists in AgriConnect.com and its portals, - it's informative, easy to navigate and user friendly. 
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Need some brochures for your next ag meeting or for your place of business?  Go to contact page and email us your contact information and we will send you some free.    Click on this link. - http://www.agriconnect.com/contact.aspx   
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Check out the rest of the web site, commodities, chat forums and AgriConnect News. 

We even offer free classifieds. Do you have something around the yard or house that could make you some money?  What have you got to lose, put it in our classifieds, it's Free.  Follow this link; http://www.agriconnect.com/classifieds.aspx?p=1 
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                   Check out AgriConnect on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Agriconnect/12204222892?ref=ts
We have uploaded a couple videos from recent TV news articles.
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           An encouraging email from someone who needs 
                         our service and your help.

Wow!  It is wonderful that you have started AgriConnect to match Farmers with Farmsitters. 

With the peaks of work in different seasons and in different farming operations it can be very difficult to find temporary employees.  It is tough enough to find permanent full-time employees in any industry. ........

AgriConnect allows a connection between farmers and farmsitters to fill the needs on both sides.  Farmsitters get to do what they love and gain some extra cash.  For the farmer labor relief is welcomed and appreciated.  Everyone wins.  ..................

What was surprising was this service is being offered free due to sponsorship from a variety of businesses and organizations.  It was a great feeling to see these sponsors stand behind us. ..................

Regards,

L. Marshall                   
To read the entire letter go to the Agriconnect news tab. 
http://www.agriconnect.com/agriconnectNews.aspx?nID=172#news

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              Win a Trip for Two to Sunny
         Mexico from Signature Vacations

We have a trip for two to Mexico this winter from Signature Vacations. Anyone who signs up to be Farmsitters or anyone requesting sitters will be entered in the draw. 
The vacation is at the 4-star all-inclusive Samba Vallarta by Pueblo Bonito in Puervo Vallarta, Mexico. 
Travel will be valid from December 1st 2008 through April 30th 2009 with black-out dates of Xmas, New Years, Spring Break and Easter. 
For specific details, go to AgriConnect News Tab and read Signature Vacations Holiday details.
http://www.agriconnect.com/agriconnectNews.aspx?nID=173#news

                 Draw to be made December 1,2008
             
                
             SOME QUOTES ABOUT OUR NEW SERVICE

We have numerous letters of support and we thought we would share some of them so you can see how this service is helping the industry. Please click on this link to read some of them.  http://www.agriconnect.com/agriconnectNews.aspx?nID=178#news 
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Thanks to everyone who dropped in to visit with us at all the trade shows. Your enthusiasm for this service makes us want to work harder at spreading the word about this new service.  You can help. The more people that know about this service the faster it will grow.

We hear story after story of the farmers and acreage owners who are in need of this service.  Anything from having to continue to do the work on the farm while seriously injured, people considering selling out because they can't find help and people who have not had a holiday in years because they can't leave the animals alone and can't find someone to look after them.
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Are you a retired farmer or someone who grew up on a farm and still in good health looking for something to do? Maybe this is an opportunity for you to travel around helping people out and seeing our beautiful country. There is no obligation that you must be available when called. 

We have a couple farms where people can live in exchange for doing chores.

Click here to register to be a Farmsitter.   http://www.agriconnect.com/farmsitters.aspx
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Thanks to all of you for supporting the initiative and we need you to help us spread the word.  The more people who know about this and support it, the more farms we will be able to help.
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Please take note of our sponsors and advertisers.  These are the companies that are helping this initiative grow. We need more companies to help the rural community by supporting this effort. Imagine if they would help spread the word through their advertising or on their web sites, we could be helping thousands of farmers! 

If you know some board members, senior management, reps and salesmen at companies you think might be able to help grow this initiative, let them know about this service. 

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Joke of the Week

We have two posters that are available to print off to put up in your place of business. 
Just click on the links below.

    
What is a Farmsitter poster - Barley
Be a Farmsitter - cow

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