I spoke to a representative from AgSpeak on Friday and as we were talking I did a Google search of their name. They already knew this but the results show their website at the top and the 2 posts I did on them on AgWired show up as numbers 4 and 5 on the list! That’s higher than the news release they sent out through PRNewswire.

Russell Graves has given me permission to use some of his photos here on AgWired and I’d sure like to do it more often. In fact, I hope to meet Russell in person some time. I just know we’d get along great. He’s going to continue to document wildlife in a variety of ways and I’m going to continue to document agribusiness not only here on AgWired but with some other plans I have for the future.

Farm blogging is growing folks. In fact, I think I know of more farmers blogging than the companies that are trying to sell them products and services! Let’s take Greg Knott for example. He’s one of several farmers who have written to me lately after finding AgWired.

My backyard bambi last week prompted one AgWired reader to send in her own. This is a picture from Columbia, MO of what’s probably an albino deer. This one’s living behind Marylin Cummins house.

With travel and meetings in St. Louis today I haven’t had time to celebrate a Gator victory last night in the BCS Championship game. How sweet is it to be a graduate of the only school to ever have both the basketball and football national championships at the same time? I promise not to bring this up again (soon).

How ’bout them Gators?

I just had to say that. They are the champions after last night’s BCS Championship whomping of Ohio State. They also have an excellent ag school in case you didn’t know that. I graduated from the College of Journalism.

This is a celebration day for those of us in the Gator Nation, which is their online social networking site.

The winter travel schedule is about to heat up starting this week with a Gateway NAMA meeting in St. Louis. I’ve added an even to the schedule too. It’s the International Poultry Expo and International Feed Expo. They’ll be taking place together in Atlanta on the 24th through the 26th. This looks like a huge show and will be a first time for me.

The phone is ringing off the hook here at ZimmComm New Media headquarters. While I’ve been talking to people around the agribusiness world this was the view out my office window just a few minutes ago.

There’s actually 4 of them wandering around in the trees behind the home office. They didn’t seem to mind my taking their picture either. They just wandered off a few feet and kept on nibbling.

I’d like to welcome you all to a brand new media year. I can’t wait to see what new techniques and technologies will pop up in the agricultural communications business. ZimmComm New Media is planning on continuing to develop various forms of social communications platforms like blogging and podcasting and we’ve got some exciting announcements coming up in the next week or so.

It’s hard to believe we’re nearing our 3rd year anniversary and it is only possible because of all the wonderful people we work with. We hope you have a fantastic 2007.

This past week Cindy and I went on a family trip that was pretty much an all day, every day adventure. It made keeping up with email and posting a challenge. Many of you have noticed that AgWired had a news feed problem and internal link problem. Well, that’s been fixed now. Thanks to all of you who brought it to my attention.