Let me introduce you to Your Farm. I know that if you have a farm it’s your farm but now there’s a new online destination that’s being developed for farmers that’s all about farmers. This is a very cool concept and one I think you should pay attention to. ZimmComm New Media is going to be a charter sponsor and we’re already working on how we integrate information into the site working with founder Joel Jaeger. You may remember Joel from his Commodity Update launch last year. Well Commodity Update is doing very well delivering commodity markets to farmers via text messages. Now he’s taking the next step to create an online community for farmers to interact with each other.

As Joel says about Your Farm on the site, it’s “An online community, integrating the knowledge and experience of farmers everywhere to bring you a resource unlike anything available today. We call it Your Farm. Because in the end that’s what matters.”

You can listen to an interview with Joel that was conducted by reporter Mike Rogers here: your-farm-jaeger-5-16-07.mp3

The new online farmer community destination is in it’s final development stages but Joel decided to go ahead and announce it to start building awareness and so that potential charter sponsors can take a first look at that site. Think MySpace for farmers. That’s what we’re talking about. Farmers will be able to sign up and participate for free and companies wanting to have a branded presence in the community are welcome to initiate a discussion on how to make that happen.

Built upon the central tenant of serving and looking out for the farmer, Your Farm Inc., a new online community designed for production agriculture, launched today. Building on the success of social networks in other industries, Your Farm is a destination where producers, agribusinesses, professors, agri-marketers, grower associations, and members of the farm media can interact, contribute and benefit. The Company was developed to be a resource for those who spend their lives in and around production agriculture.