Thanks to my good friend Adam Finley (AdJab), someone who I’ve never met, spoken with or written to, you can hear some strange songs about fruitcake. This is agricultural in a way. At least it’s in the holiday spirit.

The FAO just re-elected Jacques Diouf. If you need help pronouncing that give me a call.

Hello AgWired fans. I’m back. I’ve got lots of stuff to post for you over the next couple days so hang in there. Thanks for your patience as I took a couple of days off. It was very necessary and I highly recommend that you do the same.

Posting will be a little light over the next 4 or 5 days. It’s my annual pilgrimage to the woods but I will be online at least a little bit.

It’s a short posting day here on AgWired. It’s a big week of meetings in Kansas City. I’m heading that way as I know many of you are as well.

Let me take this opportunity to announce a new service just started by little ole ZimmComm. I know this is self serving but hey, it’s our website. What kind of promoters would we be if we didn’t use this opportunity too?

There’s a good little article on PRWeek that is worth reading called “Note to corporate bloggers: The truth shall set you free.”

I’ve been meaning to write about Russell Graves for a while. Finding out that he’s blogging forced me to go ahead. I’ve been receiving his newsletter and am very impressed with his photography and writing. Now you can find him at RussellGraves.com Updates. I’m not posting any pictures because I think you need to go there to see what he does for yourself. If you want the full meal deal then visit his website for an extensive stock photo collection. Here’s what his profile says:

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.

Proving that she is definitely connected in Washington, DC, Sara Wyant sat down for a little “chat” with Senate Ag Committee Chairman, Saxby Chambliss this week. You have to subscribe to her newsletter, Agri-Pulse, to read all about it. Here’s an excerpt: