Cnn.com posted an interesting item today about the increasing use of twitter and smartphones in farming. Aside from using the phones to monitor weather, pesticide application, soil moisture, etc. (with an increasing number of apps in the works; cool!), what is particularly exciting to me are the implications this has for the local/sustainable food movements:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/02/twitter.farmer/index.html