Stuart Pocknee is a research program coordinator for advanced technology projects at the NESPAL (National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory) unit of the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences located at their Tifton, Georgia campus.

As such, he is actively pursuing the once-elusive, now-imminent arrival of the "virtual farm," a fuel-and-food production entity saturated by wireless broadband Internet connectivity, able to be managed and its operations optimized by owners, experts, and staff from anywhere on the property or anywhere in the world with an Internet connection.

On May 17, 2004, Virtual Farm World spoke exclusively with Mr. Pocknee about the benefits of the virtual farm, what elements are still missing for its widespread adoption, and about how it works.

You can hear that interview by clicking here.

You can watch Stuart Pocknee being interviewed remotely (but without sound) by Virtual Farm World while he stands in one of NESPAL's fields by clicking here.

For information about "On-Farm Wireless Networking: An Information Summit for Researchers and Industry," being put on by NESPAL in June, 2004, click here.

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