My Dear Friends,

It looks like I have come to an end of my agri-blogging highway for AgWired.com. Well, maybe not an end, but at least a detour. For the next year, I won’t be able to provide you with periodic updates as I have accepted a new job.

I have been offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go to Afghanistan to help the Afghans start a radio journalism/production program, so they can get good information to the people of that country and not just what some mullah wants to tell them. Don’t worry about my safety; I’ll be warm and safe and dry in the cozy confines of Kandahar Air Base, protected by the finest collection of fighting men and women the world has ever seen. I only hope that my efforts will make their jobs a little easier and help Afghanistan recover from decades of war and strife.

In the meantime, I hope to check in from time to time and give you a glimpse of our efforts there.

I can’t tell you how much I have appreciated Chuck’s and Cindy’s efforts and opportunities they have afforded me. They are true friends. I also feel confident that between them and their pool of talented, sophisticated freelance journalists, they’ll continue to educate the world about the importance of American farmers and ranchers.

Thank you again for your readership, and I hope we can see each other again down that agri-blogging highway.

John