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E-Markets Licenses AscendentTM Software from AGRIS Corporation
CONTACT:
Scott Cavey
President and COO
515-956-9312
scott.cavey@e-markets.com
AMES, Iowa - November 13, 2002 -E-Markets, Inc. announced today the licensing agreement of AscendentTM software from AGRIS Corporation of Roswell, GA. Ascendent is currently being used by over 30 customers across the United States representing input retailers, flour mills, grain elevators, and seed companies. E-Markets will provide future support, maintenance, development, and enhancement of the Ascendent software.
"We look forward to utilizing our web services to enhance the technology for the Ascendent customers," states Scott Cavey, President & COO of E-Markets, Inc. "The Ascendent customers will have complete order integration into our NetOrder customers such as CROPLAN Genetics and Mycogen Seeds. We feel that the integration of the back office software and web services is critical to create a single entry supply chain communication for the ag retailers."
This is the second business system to join the E-Markets family in the past 2 months. E-Markets recently acquired AgSoft of Salinas CA.
E-Markets (www.e-markets.com) applications enable information sharing across the agrifood value chain and streamline back office processes resulting in significant returns for its customers. The company is a pioneer in developing Internet-enabled applications for the agricultural industry, having introduced the first online grain production contracting system in 1997 and the first Internet-based input ordering system in 1998. Several thousand grain elevators, ag retail centers, and processors throughout the United States are using E-Markets tools. More than $1 billion in transactions have been completed using the suite of solutions powered by E-Markets®.
CROPLAN GENETICS provides the seed-product component of the Total Farm Solutions system offered by Agriliance, LLC., the agronomy marketing joint venture of Land O' Lakes, Cenex Harvest States and Farmland Industries, Inc.
Mycogen Seeds is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company and is an affiliate of Dow AgroSciences LLC. Mycogen Seeds is the leader in Silage-Specific™ corn, the largest sunflower seed producer, and a leading producer of seed corn, alfalfa, soybeans and sorghum.
For more information on Mycogen Seeds, go to www.mycogen.com on the Internet.
Land O'Lakes (www.landolakesinc.com) is a national, farmer-owned food and agricultural cooperative, with sales of $6 billion. Land O'Lakes does business in all fifty states and more than fifty countries. It is a leading marketer of a full line of dairy-based consumer, foodservice and food ingredient products across the U.S.; serves its international customers with a variety of food and animal feed ingredients; and provides farmers and local cooperatives with an extensive line of agricultural supplies (feed, seed, crop nutrients and crop protection products) and services.
AGRIS Corporation, founded in 1978, is the leading provider of information technology products and services to the agribusiness industry. AGRIS software systems include a variety of business management tools for crop protection, plant food, and farm supply retailers; grain elevators; feed and milling companies; food processors; and producers. In addition, AGRIS offers PCs, wide area networks, and data communication services; training and support services; grower management systems; and crop production tools. AGRIS, with offices in Georgia, Minnesota, Kansas, and California, is a John Deere Company. AGRIS can be found on the Internet at www.agris.com.
For more information go to www.e-markets.com or call 1-877-674-7419.
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