The National Corn Growers Association just announced that they are now using RSS to distribute information. Just use this link to subscribe like I did with my NewsGator Outlook plugin. Why don’t we see more of this? It’s good for getting information to members and the media. Sure, not all farmers know how to use RSS. Not all of them have a computer either. But a growing number of them do. I think NCGA’s timing is great with Commodity Classic coming up next week. I’m sure this will be a great mechanism to help keep us all informed.

Beginning today, you can enjoy the convenience of the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) News of The Day coming to your personalized home page. NCGA now provides free RSS feeds, bringing the latest news, Ag Roundups and other information direct to your computer. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is an XML-based format for content distribution. RSS feeds are free content feeds from Web sites, such as www.ncga.com, that contain article headlines, summaries and links back to full-text articles on the Web.

RSS is an easy way for you to be alerted when content that interests you appears on the NCGA web site. Instead of visiting a particular Web site to browse for new articles and features, RSS automatically tells you when something new is posted on the site.