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 · the real slot, drawn by the page that runs it
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 Bing Webmaster Tools, read from the audience data file the site publishes. Every figure carries its window: 28 days ending September 24, 2026 for Analytics and Google, 90 days ending September 17, 2026 for Bing and Copilot answers.
Bing & Copilot Answer Citations · 90 Days
82,069
Bing and Copilot answers cited AGSIST 82,069 times from Jun 20 to Sep 17, 2026 (Bing Webmaster Tools). The last 30 days (Aug 19 – Sep 17) ran 1,615 a day, peaking at 2,857 on Sep 16, with up to 47 separate AGSIST pages cited in one day. Your message sits on the page being cited.
Page Views · 28d
10,544
10,544 page views from 4,303 readers in the 28 days Aug 28 – Sep 24 (Google Analytics, 6,837 sessions). The reader count includes some automated traffic: 1,726 of 10,642 users in the 90 days to Sep 24 came from data-centre locations. Most viewed: /cash-bids 2,453, the homepage 1,689, corn futures 353, yield estimator 332, hail map 321.
Google Clicks · 28d vs prior 28d
+62%
Google search clicks rose 62% — 885 (Jul 31 – Aug 27) to 1,436 (Aug 28 – Sep 24) — while impressions rose 86% (Search Console). Bing clicks fell 16% (2,615 to 2,206) over the same windows, so Google and Bing combined rose about 4% (3,500 to 3,642). Readers by state in the same 28 days: Illinois 521, Iowa 348, Minnesota 335, Texas 279, Missouri 220, Wisconsin 209.
Search Impressions · 28d
116,292
Google search impressions, Aug 28 – Sep 24 (1,436 clicks), up from 62,379 in the 28 days before. Bing carried another 79,542 impressions and 2,206 clicks over the same 28 days, down from 84,348 impressions and 2,615 clicks in the 28 days before.
Bing & Copilot Citations per DayJun 20 → Sep 17, 2026 · citations per day
Citations per day, so a part-month compares to a whole one. 90-day total (Jun 20 – Sep 17): 82,069 Bing and Copilot answer citations, as reported by Bing Webmaster Tools.
What this counts. Citations per day rose from 435 (Jun 20–30) to 1,832 (Sep 1–17). This is Bing’s own count of times its Bing and Copilot answers cited an AGSIST page. It says nothing about ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini, which we do not measure. A sponsor’s message sits on pages those answers already cite.
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 rising Bing and Copilot citations 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 and Bing clicks up 4% in 28 days
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. Google clicks are up 62% in the last 28 days against the 28 before, Bing clicks are down 16%, and the two together are up about 4%. Today’s rate is set against a search audience that is holding steady to slightly up. 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 — the most-viewed page, 2,453 views in the 28 days ending Sep 24. Fits: grain marketing advisors, elevators, hedging desks.
/markets + futures pagesThe daily price check — corn futures 353 views, cattle futures 303, markets 276 in the 28 days ending Sep 24. Fits: brokerages, marketing services.
/hail-map321 page views in the 28 days ending Sep 24 — 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-calculatorPeople sizing storage: “grain bin calculator” showed 340 times in Google search in the 28 days ending Sep 24. 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.
Disclosure. I also own Farmers First Agri Service LLC in Chetek, WI (crop insurance, agronomy and ag technology services; a licensed crop-insurance agency) and Loke Drone LC (agricultural drone spraying). If you sell insurance, Farmers First may compete with you, and you should know that before you buy. Sponsors never change data, rankings or bid order on AGSIST.
Bing Webmaster Tools reports that Bing and Copilot answers cited AGSIST 82,069 times in the 90 days from June 20 to September 17, 2026. The last 30 days (August 19 to September 17) averaged 1,615 a day, with a single-day peak of 2,857 on September 16. Google search delivered 1,436 clicks on 116,292 impressions in the 28 days ending September 24, up from 885 clicks on 62,379 impressions in the 28 days before. Bing delivered 2,206 clicks in the same 28 days, down from 2,615, so Google and Bing together went from 3,500 to 3,642 clicks (about +4%). Google Analytics counted 4,303 readers and 10,544 page views in the same 28 days, and that count includes some automated traffic (1,726 of 10,642 users in the 90 days to Sep 24 came from data-centre locations); the most-viewed pages were /cash-bids (2,453 views) and the homepage (1,689). Your sponsor placement lives on pages that readers and Bing’s answers already use.
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 grows further. Once filled, the next slot opens only on renewal.