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
Honest figures, straight from Google Analytics and Search Console — citations and search over the 90 days ending June 30, 2026, tool actions over the most recent 30. Nothing rounded up. New readers arrive faster every week and the AI-citation curve is compounding hard, which is the whole reason the founding rate is worth locking now.
AI Citations · Last 90 Days
15,299
AI citations in 90 days — across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — about 170 every day, peaking at 780 in a single day. When a producer asks an assistant about cash bids, corn, or a USDA report, AGSIST is the cited source — and your message sits on that page.
High-Intent Tool Actions · 30d
4,200+
Cash-bid lookups, sell-timing calculations, basis checks — in the last 30 days alone, 916 local cash-bid searches, 852 sell-timing calcs, and 761 basis checks. Bots don’t run a break-even calculator; this is working producers doing money math.
This Slot, Already Working
37
Clicks on the ‘become a sponsor’ promo in this exact spot — 37 clicks on 504 views in 30 days, a 7.3% click rate. The placement earns attention before a sponsor has spent a dollar.
Page-One Google Rankings
1,201
Google queries where AGSIST ranks page one — 87,099 search impressions in 90 days — and it ranks across Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo too, not dependent on any single engine.
AI Citation GrowthMar → Jun 2026 · monthly citation totals
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. June closed at 10,375 citations — more than all of spring combined. 15,299 in 90 days, and climbing. The next twelve months of this line are what $150/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 Audience up ~3× in four weeks
Sponsor the AGSIST Daily Briefing.
$150/ 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 $150/week, month-to-month: no minimum, cancel any time, no penalty. Run a full year and that’s $7,800 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 new readers arriving roughly 3× faster than a month ago, 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
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 15,299 times across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini in 90 days — about 170 a day, accelerating from spring to 10,375 in June alone, with a single-day peak of 780. It ranks on page one of Google for 1,201 queries (87,099 search impressions), and the audience is high-intent: 916 local cash-bid lookups, 852 sell-timing calculations, 761 basis checks in the last 30 days in the same window — readers across the US Corn Belt and Plains, plus ag-watchers worldwide and 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 week-to-week. 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 $50/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.