I know, I’m being a pain. But we want our survey (1st annual?) to be as meaningful as possible. We’ve had quite a few done so far but I’d really like more of you to chime in. I just did one last night for somebody that was agonizing in more ways than one. It had pages full of questions, all kinds of questions. Our is short, simple and you really don’t have to think hard to answer the questions.

So come on, take maybe 3 minutes and get your survey done today. Please?

The 2006 NAFB Convention is coming up soon so you might want to get it on your planner. It’ll be held November 15-17 at the Westin Crown Plaza in Kansas City as usual. The theme is “Farm and Rural Horizons.” In case you need your own personal invitation from someone who will make you want to go NAFB sent out …

I admit to taking a beautiful afternoon off and spending it with my good friend, Derry Brownfield.

Since it seems like a lot of my technical problems today are related to Internet Explorer I’ve switched over to Firefox. I like it a lot better anyway. It’s been one of those days that makes you say TGIF.

I’m a little behind in my posting today due to multiple computer problems. My web hosting company is working on their issues and 2 of my computers got infected somehow eventhough I’ve got all the latest stuff to block it, including a hardware firewall. It just proves that anyone can get attacked.

So, be patient. I’m sure we’ll be back to normal soon. This is why we have backups to our backups.

I just thought you might be interested to see this. Ever wanted to create a screenshot to send to someone or use in a presentation or for any other reason? It is not always the easiest thing to do.

At first glance this may not have anything to do with agricultural marketing. My old buddy, Bennie, from high school emailed this picture to all the members of my 30 year high school reunion that’s coming up in a couple weeks.

I want to thank those of you who have already taken the AgWired survey. I’m hoping to have at least a hundred of them filled out by the first of October, so please take just a few moments (3 minutes at most) to fill it out. I know a lot of you do surveys of your customers and various audiences and know how important this is. I will greatly appreciate your support in this project.

A ZimmCast earlier this summer featured an interview with Commodity Update founder Joel Jaeger. We just sent out a talking news release for him via AgNewsWire.AgWired.com.

Hello from the Pentagon area. It was a long day of travel after getting in late yesterday from Chicago. That didn’t leave much time for posting but I’ll get caught up this week.