It’s been two weeks since I started posting to AgWired.Com as a Canadian journalist and broadcaster. I need to know whether the articles and comments I post have any value to you the reader or listener. When I spotted Chuck Zimmer’s post on his looking for another poster, I let him know of my credentials and availability.

I sometimes get asked how you can find something to write about everyday, much less multiple times a day. I’ve been blogging over a year and haven’t run into that problem yet. There’s inspiration everywhere, like alongside the Missouri River today. Since it was so warm here in Missouri I took a break for some biking on the Katy Trail. All I had was my Treo phone camera.

Thanks to one of our subscribers for the heads up on this excellent article on blogging posted today on the Wall Street Journal. It’s not long and I suggest you read it. I couldn’t even begin to cover all of it here. Basically, the author, Jason Fry starts out talking about all the recent main stream media articles that suggest that the blogging “fad” is fading. As it regards that he has this to say:

The Canadian Pork Council suggests, in the face of stable North American consumption, it’s important for the Canadian pork industry to continue its focus on sales opportunities in non-NAFTA countries.

There doomsayers and there are realists. A report in a Saskatoon, Saskatchewan newspaper caught my attention. In my opinion, it adds to the farming confusion – But at the same time, it lays it on the line.

While driving south from Red Wing and a little north of Rochester, MN, I passed an elk farm just before it got dark. Very pretty picture. Snow covered hillside and lots of these animals. They were a long way off so I pulled over on a very busy 4-lane and put my camera on a small tripod on top of my car to snap a couple pics.

In attending the Canadian Association of Ag Retailers Icebreaker Reception in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan recently, I got the feeling there’s optimism in the air.

If you’re wondering what to do in March, here’s one idea. It’s the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development or ICARRD, taking place in Porto Alegre, Brazil March 7 – 10.

I have not watched any of the winter Olympics yet but now I might after seeing a post on the CNET Apple Blog about a story in the Baltimore Sun. It’s about the snow boarders and their iPods. They wear jackets outfitted to hold and control iPods that even include built in speakers. As the story says,

It’s time to get back on the road again. I was going to have a little clip of Willie’s song here but it didn’t work out. I bought it on iTunes, then found out that I can’t even open the stupid file except with iTunes. I don’t like that.