FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 9, 2004

Contact: 
Joe Dales
Farms.com Ltd.
(877) 438-5729 x5013
joe.dales@farms.com

 Farms.com Ltd. develops strategic alliance with ManagetheFarm.com

Ames, Iowa - Farms.com Ltd., a leading information and marketing company that provides innovative solutions to the global Agriculture and Food industry announced that it has developed a strategic business relationship with ManagetheFarm, (www.managethefarm.com), a leading company that offers an integrated web-based management information system to professional farm managers who operate multiple farm properties. ManagetheFarm.com provides a solution to the common problems of duplicate handling and filing of information regarding planning, purchasing, operating, aggregating, and traceability.
ManagetheFarm.com has been in operation since 2000 and helps farm management companies improve their business with software and systems that allow them to manage their information more efficiently. The company boasts an impressive list of clients and supporters such Stalcup Ag Services, Storm Lake, Iowa – one of the top 50 largest farm management firms in the USA.

“Farms.com is providing the additional technology, increased customer service and marketing resources required to allow us to work with a greater number of professional farm managers and greater acreages,” says ManagetheFarm.com President, Jay Schaper, “they will help us improve the services to our customers.”

“We have followed the progress of ManagetheFarm.com over the past 4 years and been impressed with the value it can bring to professional farm managers, says Joe Dales, Vice President of Farms.com, “the importance of information management software in agriculture is increasing and we want be a part of bringing these innovations to more customers.

Farms.com Ltd. (www.farms.com) is a leading marketing and information company with a history of providing innovative software solutions to the global agriculture and food industry. Farms.com can be accessed through their leading agriculture information portal, which has business services and resources for the 10,000+ agribusiness, livestock and crop producers who use it each day. The Farms.com companies have an impressive list of clients which include large Fortune 500 agriculture business companies to smaller livestock and grain farmers. The company operates across North America with offices located in Ames, Iowa; Clinton, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia and London, Ontario, Canada.

For more information, contact:

Joe Dales
Senior Vice President
Farms.com Ltd.
877-438-5729
joe.dales@farms.com