Be the first thing US grain producers see before the market opens.
The AGSIST Daily Briefing reaches active US grain producers, input buyers, and farm decision-makers every morning before 6 AM CT — the hour they price corn, book fertilizer, and call their elevator. One sponsor per issue. One brand above every briefing. Written by one person you can reply to directly.
See what’s available → Skip to the numbers ↓1 The Spot
One sponsor card. Above the fold of every Daily Briefing. Your logo, a headline, your message, and your URL. No rotation, no programmatic auction, no competing ads on the page. The first thing a reader sees after the date and the headline — and before they read today’s market view.
2 By the Numbers
Honest figures from the last 30 days. Nothing is rounded up.
3 Who Reads This
- Active US grain producers — primarily corn, soybean, and wheat operations, with livestock and dairy operators tracking feed costs.
- Reading window: 5:45 – 7:30 AM Central. The pre-market hour.
- What they’re doing in the briefing: checking overnight futures, cash bids, weather, USDA reports, COT positioning, export sales, planting and crop progress.
- What they’re deciding: when to forward-contract, when to lock fertilizer, when to plant or harvest, who to sell to today.
- Geography: national footprint with strong concentration across the Corn Belt and Northern Plains.
4 Why This Audience Is Worth More Than Its Size
Most ag advertising buys eyeballs — Facebook feed scrolls at lunch, banner ads on a yield report, video preroll on a weather clip. Those are passive impressions, and they price like it.
The Daily Briefing isn’t passive. Producers open it before they make money decisions. Your brand isn’t competing for attention against a meme or a cat video — it’s the first frame of context for the morning’s market view. An eyeball during a futures check is worth a stack of feed-scroll impressions.
A small audience with high intent and weekly compounding AI citation growth is a different product than a large audience with passive intent. The first is rare. The second is everywhere.
5 Sponsors That Fit
You’re a strong fit if you sell into grain operations and want to be in front of producers at the moment they’re making input or marketing decisions.
Probably not a fit if you sell into consumer audiences only, organic specialty markets only, or non-row-crop livestock segments.
6 Pricing
- Above-the-fold placement on every Daily Briefing for the full term
- Logo, headline, body copy, and CTA URL of your choice (one free copy refresh per quarter)
- Monthly performance report — impressions, click-throughs, and AI citation count
- Founding-sponsor trial: first sponsor only — 50% off the first 2 weeks ($75 each), so your six-week start is $750 instead of $900
- Direct access to the founder. No agency, no account manager, no media-buyer middleman — reply to my email and you're talking to the person who writes the briefing and built the site
- Cancel after 30 days, no penalty if it isn’t working for you
- Right of first refusal on renewal at your founding rate
7 One Person. Direct Line.
Most ag media you might sponsor sits behind a sales team, then a media buyer, then an account manager, then maybe an editor. By the time your campaign actually runs, it’s been through four desks. AGSIST has one desk.
I built AGSIST personally — every line of code, every data pipeline, the daily briefing itself. I’m also a licensed crop insurance agent serving producers across Wisconsin and Minnesota, which is how I know what farmers actually need to see at 6 AM.
When you sponsor the briefing, you work directly with me. No sales rep. No agency markup. No "let me check with my team." You email me, I email back — usually within hours, always within a business day. Need creative tweaked mid-campaign? Reply to my last email. Want to discuss strategy? Pick up the phone. Bigger ad networks literally can’t offer this — the speed of a one-person operation is the product.
It also means when something needs to change on your sponsor slot — a new headline, a fresh URL, a season-specific message — it’s done that day, not after a creative-review meeting next Tuesday.
8 Quick Answers
How many people will actually see my sponsorship?
Can I cancel if it isn’t working?
Will I be working with an agency or media buyer?
Will I get a media kit and rate card I can forward to my marketing team?
What about creative? Do I need to provide finished art?
Can I sponsor specific issues or weekdays only?
One slot. Open until it’s claimed.
Get on the founding-sponsor rate before the audience compounds further. Once filled, the next slot opens only on renewal — or when paid tiers launch.