AgWired readership continues to grow. We look at those web stats frequently and the end of the month makes for a good comparison point. So far we’ve had almost 12,000 unique visitors to AgWired and growing daily. We had 133,000 page views last month. Once again last month we had more new visitors and total visits than any previous month by a significant percentage. Our average daily traffic increased too.
Use Your Phone To Do Live TV
This is too cool not to let you in on. We haven’t even started doing video here on AgWired (just wait) and already you can now do live video “broadcasts” from a mobile phone, direct to your blog. The company introducing it is Comvu and they call it PocketCaster. You can watch a demonstration here.
Syngenta Upgrades FarmAssist.com
You can’t be a weblog and not get into checking out websites. We will only report on them after doing so. That’s why I waited hours to post this announcement from Syngenta. These are the folks who created the very cool, Resistance Fighters site.
Maybe this is the last NAFB convention audio invitation? Who knows. They just keep coming. With all this effort I’m expecting to see about 10,000 of you there next week. This one is from Orion Samuelson, who talks about the NAFB Foundation Auction. Orion has been a foundation supporter for a long time.New FFA Officers
They’re such a good looking group I had to post them for you. This is the newly elected national officer group for FFA. Their convention is over and you can find out a lot about it on their website.
Osborn & Barr People In The News
It’s people in the news time at Osborn & Barr Communications. This time we have several announcements for you:
Pioneer & Dow AgroSciences Receive Herculex XTRA Approval
Pioneer Hi-Bred and Dow AgroSciences announced today that they’ve received U. S. regulatory approvals for Herculex XTRA Insect Protection. Growers can look for this trait in corn hybrids for 2006 planting. Of course this was produced and distributed as a Talking News Release!
Andy Markwart Talks About IFAJ 2009
If you’ve read AgWired for long you know about the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ). I got to attend this year’s congress in Switzerland and am on the planning committee for the 2009 IFAJ Congress, which will be here in the United States! We’ve already had our first planning meeting. I know 4 years seems like a long time but not when you’re planning an international event.
Ag Editor Is Blogging
It was only a matter of time before we started seeing this. This, being an agricultural editor who is now blogging! I came across a link to Matt Mullen while visiting Paul Conley’s blog. Lo and behold, Matt’s actually got 3 blogs.
Nominate Your Excellent Soybean Grower Now
Do you know an excellent soybean grower? One who’s demonstrated outstanding achievements? Now’s the time to nominate them for the United Soybean Boards annual awards. Let’s flood them with nominations and make it really hard to pick one!!