DTN, a leading business-to-business provider of real-time market, news and weather information services, today announced the asset acquisition of the online agriculture information provider, QuickFarm, including its customer base. DTN will provide QuickFarm's customers with advanced DTN agribusiness marketing tools, as well as real-time commodity and futures information, in-depth market analysis and real-time, localized weather information. Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

With the acquisition, customers now have access to the full suite of DTN agribusiness tools and services including DTN AgHost™, DTN Marketer™, and DTN Grain Trading Portal™. The products are designed to help agribusinesses enhance communications with customers and prospects in order to drive sales. In addition, DTN also provides real-time commodity and futures information, in-depth market analysis and real-time, localized weather information.

"DTN looks forward to extending the successful relationship QuickFarm has established with its customers," said Robert Gordon, chief executive officer, DTN. "This acquisition will allow DTN to reach a larger number of agribusiness owners and to assist them in making smarter business decisions."

QuickFarm is an online provider of Web-based services, technologies and agriculture news. Through branded Web applications, QuickFarm supplies commodity information and industry content to agribusinesses, such as grain elevators, cooperatives, feed yards and mills, cotton gins and other agricultural commodity trading points and their producer-customers. QuickFarm products and services increase the efficiencies and opportunities for agribusinesses to serve their customers.