AgWired

It’s time to start getting into the holiday spirit so I thought I’d offer you some (strange) holiday cheer to perk you up when you get into the office on Monday morning.

OfficeMax has some really wacky little online stuff to help us all out. So without further ado here’s where you get your morning fun.

I didn’t want to leave Cindy out so you can watch her doing the elf dance here too.

Thanks Steve.

Do you have some real estate you’d like to sell? Are you wondering how you’re going to market it? Here’s a place you might want to check on. I don’t know who this is behind it but I’m sure I can find out.

Your FREE Real Estate listing and photo will reach thousands of potential customers who visit FarmRanchHome.com every day. FarmRanchHome.com allows you to create listings based on a variety of criteria, which quickly directs visitors to your home, farm, ranch, land, or commercial property listing. It’s quick and easy! Simply visit www.farmranchhome.com/create.php and create a free account. Then you can begin adding an unlimited number of listings, absolutely free.

So there you have it. An absolutely free commercial post for FarmRanchHome.com. They also have a couple of other sites: WesternEvents.com and Cowboy.com.

Although the next two weeks seem very busy, they’re nothing like what the schedule will be like after the holidays. It’s winter meeting time and I’m sure a lot of state organizations are actively meeting. Our annual Missouri Governor’s Conference on Agriculture is kicking off today at Lake of the Ozarks.

On the national level one of the first ones to get things going in the new year is the American Farm Bureau Federation annual convention. I won’t be attending this one but I’ve got a number of others I’m working on. If you’re in the media and haven’t registered for AFBF yet you can find the form to do so here (Word doc).

Some of the ones I’m confirmed to attend include International Green Week, Cattle Industry Annual Convention & Trade Show, National Biodiesel Conference and Commodity Classic. Others I may be attending include Beltwide Cotton Conference, National Farm Machinery Show and National Ethanol Conference. Do you have one you’d like to have covered personally on AgWired? If so give me a call and let’s get it on the schedule.

As I posted previously, it looks like the spammers were out in force big time yesterday. We have ways to deal with this but unfortunately my hosting company support staff freaked out and disabled a vital part of the website. That’s why you’re seeing my old theme as of this posting. You can trust the fact that I’m not happy about this and will be having a discussion with them this morning.

We’ll be working on this some more this morning to get everything back to normal.

In about an hour late yesterday afternoon we had almost 4,000 spam comments thrown at us which all generated corresponding emails to my email account. That’s unbelievable. AgWired was the only site hit of our network. We normally receive about 100 a day.

In case you may have been wondering where AgWired disappeared to, it was an attack. Someone spammed our comments and our hosting company had to shut us down temporarily because it was overloading the server. I’m not sure what kind of person gets their kicks doing this kind of thing but I’d love to have a few minutes alone with him.

I apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused and by the time you can see this post everything should be back to normal. He said hopefully.