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 the market open — 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.
One sponsor card. Above the fold of every Daily Briefing — and above the fold on the AGSIST homepage, where the same briefing leads the page all day. 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.
What it looks like · live preview
Today’s SponsorYour Brand
Your headline. 90 characters to make farmers stop scrolling.
A short paragraph — up to about 50 words — describing what you do for working US producers. Plus a strong call to action below.
Above the fold on every briefing and the homepage. Mobile + desktop. Web + email.
2 By the Numbers
Straight from Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and the AI-citation export — citations over the 90 days ending August 13, 2026, everything else over the most recent 28. Nothing rounded up, nothing estimated, and every Google figure here reconciles between two independent reports. New readers arrive faster every month and the AI-citation curve is compounding, which is the whole reason the founding rate is worth locking now.
AI Citations · Last 90 Days
38,597
AI citations in 90 days — across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — running about 546 every day, peaking at 1,217 in a single day, with a record 26 separate AGSIST pages cited on one day. Ask an assistant “cash grain bid” and AGSIST is cited on 45% of the answers; “current wheat prices per bushel,” 61%; “grain prices at local elevators,” 65%. Your message sits on the page being cited.
High-Intent Tool Actions · 28d
6,364
Deliberate actions only — a button pressed, a ZIP entered, a number run. In the last 28 days: 1,785 hail address lookups, 1,348 local cash-bid searches, 1,224 sell-timing calcs, 1,138 basis checks. Page loads and auto-fired events are excluded. Bots don’t run a break-even calculator; this is working producers doing money math.
Growth · One Month
+176%
Google search clicks grew 176% in the last month — 209 to 577 — while impressions rose 230% and average position improved from 13.5 to 10.3. 3,270 US readers in 28 days, concentrated where the grain is: Chicago, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Fargo, Sioux Falls, Wichita.
Search Impressions · 28d
45,148
Google search impressions in the last 28 days (577 clicks), up from 13,678 a month earlier. 3,308 of those were Google AI Overviews citing the site, against 1,251 the month before. And Google is not the only engine here — Bing carried another 40,995 impressions over the same stretch. Older, rural, decision-making readers, not dependent on any single engine.
AI Citation GrowthMay → Aug 2026 · citations per day
Citations per day, so a part-month compares honestly to a whole one. 90-day total: 38,597 across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & Gemini.
This curve is the whole pitch. A founding sponsor doesn’t just buy today’s readers — they lock a position in the AI-cited source layer for US grain markets, the layer farm decisions are migrating into, while it’s still cheap. Citations went from 114 a day in late May to 617 a day in July. August is running 559 a day — a step back from July, and we’d rather print that than round it up. What did keep climbing is reach: the number of separate AGSIST pages cited in a single day went from 11 in May to a record 26 on August 10. 38,597 citations in 90 days. The next twelve months of this line are what $100/week is really buying.
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.
IowaIllinoisIndianaMinnesotaNebraskaOhioWisconsinMichiganMissouriKansasSouth DakotaNorth DakotaKentuckyArkansasTennessee+ national
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.
Bottom line
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.
Regional ag retailers & co-ops
Seed, chemical & fertilizer dealers
Grain elevators & merchandisers
Equipment dealers (planters, sprayers, drying)
Animal health & livestock genetics
Ag lending, hedging & marketing services
Precision ag, soil testing & farm software
Custom application & harvest services
Probably not a fit if you sell into consumer audiences only, organic specialty markets only, or non-row-crop livestock segments.
6 Pricing
Available NowFounding Sponsor · 1 Slot Google clicks up 85% in a month
Sponsor the AGSIST Daily Briefing.
$100/ weekfirst 2 weeks free · then month-to-month, cancel anytime
First 2 weeks free — no card, no commitment, the full placement at no cost. After that it’s $100/week, month-to-month: no minimum, cancel any time, no penalty. Run a full year and that’s $5,200 of above-the-fold placement every market morning — less than a single quarter-page ad in one trade magazine, running every day instead of once. And with monthly readers up 56% in the last month and Google clicks up 85%, today’s rate locks in against an audience that keeps growing under it. That’s the founding-sponsor advantage: not a discount on what AGSIST is today, but on what it’s becoming.
What’s included
Above-the-fold placement on every Daily Briefing and the AGSIST homepage, 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
First 2 weeks free — run the full placement at no cost before you pay anything
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
No minimum — cancel any time, no penalty if it isn’t working for you
Right of first refusal on renewal at your founding rate
$35/ week per page · first 2 weeks free · month-to-month
Every high-traffic AGSIST page carries one sponsor ribbon — one slot, one category. One crop-insurance name on the hail map. One bin builder on the bin calculator. One retailer on the spray page. When it’s yours, your competitors can’t have it. Same terms as everything here: first 2 weeks free, month-to-month, cancel anytime, monthly numbers included.
/cash-bidsFarmers with grain to sell — 1,348 local bid searches & 1,224 haul-math runs in 28 days. Fits: grain marketing advisors, elevators, hedging desks.
/markets + futures pagesThe most-viewed pages on the site — the daily price check. Fits: brokerages, marketing services.
/hail-map573 county hail lookups in 28 days — people checking damage, plus your name on the hail-alert emails it sends. Want just your state? Any of the 51 state hail pages (hail-map/texas, /kansas, …) can carry its own exclusive ribbon at the same rate — your book’s geography, nobody else’s. Fits: crop insurance, roofing/ag repair.
/grain-bin-calculatorThe #1 Google lander on the site. People sizing storage. Fits: bin builders, drying & handling equipment.
/spray + /ureaSpray-window and N-loss decisions in season. Fits: chem & fertilizer retailers, custom applicators.
/field-scout + /cash-rentLand intelligence — soil, rent, rotation on any field. Fits: ag lenders, land agents, insurance.
Those are the headliners — 25+ pages carry a slot, calendar to COT. If your customers use one of them, ask about it.
For companies that want their name in front of the same producers without the full founding commitment. Your logo joins the Supporters strip in the footer of every AGSIST page — homepage, briefing, and every tool. Shared and non-exclusive, but the roster is capped at a handful of names so it stays a short list of backers, not an ad rail. This is a different surface from the founding slot — it doesn’t touch the single-sponsor briefing placement.
Logo + link in the site-wide footer Supporters strip
First 2 weeks free, then month-to-month. No minimum, cancel any time
Capped roster — a short list of backers, not a network
First in line for the founding slot when you’re ready to own the briefing
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.
Sigurd Lindquist
Founder & sole developer, AGSIST · Certified Crop Adviser (CCA)
I built AGSIST personally — every line of code, every data pipeline, the daily briefing itself. I’m also a Certified Crop Adviser (CCA), which is how I know what working producers actually need to see before the market open.
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.
AGSIST was cited 38,597 times across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini in the 90 days ending August 13 — about 546 a day over the last 28, a single-day peak of 1,217, and a record 26 separate AGSIST pages cited on one day. Google clicks grew 176% in one month (577 clicks on 45,148 impressions in 28 days, up from 209 on 13,678), Google’s AI Overviews cited the site 3,308 times in the same stretch, and Bing carried another 40,995 impressions. The audience is high-intent: 1,785 hail address lookups, 1,348 local cash-bid searches, 1,224 sell-timing calculations and 1,138 basis checks in 28 days — readers across the US Corn Belt and Plains, plus the AI assistants producers ask. When someone asks an assistant about grain markets, cash bids, or CBOT futures, your sponsor placement is on the page being cited.
Can I cancel if it isn’t working?
Yes. There’s no minimum — your first 2 weeks are free, and after that it runs month-to-month. Cancel any time with no penalty. I’d rather lose a sponsor honestly than hold one who isn’t getting value.
Will I be working with an agency or media buyer?
No. You work directly with me — the person who writes the briefing and built the site. No account manager in the middle, no agency markup, no waiting on someone else’s slide deck. You email me, I email back. That responsiveness is the product as much as the sponsor slot is. Bigger ad networks literally can’t offer it.
Will I get a media kit and rate card I can forward to my marketing team?
Yes — reply to my email and I’ll send a PDF version of this page plus a sample monthly performance report. If your team needs a specific contract template or invoice format, just ask.
What about creative? Do I need to provide finished art?
No. Send me your logo, a one-sentence headline, up to 50 words of body copy, and your URL. I’ll handle formatting and layout. One free copy refresh per quarter so you can update around launches or seasons.
Can I sponsor specific issues or weekdays only?
Right now, no — the founding sponsor takes every issue. As subscriber count grows I may open per-issue and per-weekday slots, but founding sponsors will keep right of first refusal on those windows.
Is there a cheaper option than the founding slot?
Yes — the Supporter tier: first 2 weeks free, then $25/week, month-to-month, no minimum. Your logo joins a shared Supporters strip in the footer of every page. It’s non-exclusive and the roster is capped at a handful of names. The founding slot stays the premium single-sponsor placement above the fold; the Supporter tier is the smaller door. See the Supporter tier ↑
One slot. Open until it’s claimed.
Try it free for two weeks, then lock the founding rate before the audience compounds further. Once filled, the next slot opens only on renewal.