High Tech Farmers Descend on Honolulu

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They’re tweeting, blogging, streaming audio …

No, TechCrunch hasn’t relocated to Hawaii. It’s the American Farm Bureau, which kicked off its annual meeting on Saturday at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu. 

Thousands of farmers from around the country have made the trek to Hawaii’s “gathering place,” to discuss the most pressing concerns facing the ag sector this year. 

Follow the conference via twitter:  @FarmBureau. 

Track it on facebook.

Read the blog.

Listen to audiocasts of the conference on its web site. 

And here’s one of their videos. A farmer from Washington gives his take on Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s keynote speech:

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