WILL Press Room
WILL Agriculture Takes Ag Info to Mobile Devices
Monday, September 12, 2011
Just in time for harvest season when farmers are often in their combines, WILL agriculture has crafted a website for mobile devices, m.willag.org, providing access to WILL’s on-air agricultural programming and other agricultural news.
The Pre-Opening Market Report, Opening Market Report and Closing Market Report are available on the site each weekday minutes after they air on WILL-AM 580 radio. Commodity Week is available on the site by 6 p.m. Fridays before its 11:30 a.m. Saturday radio broadcast.
“We know producers can’t always be near a computer or pick up a good radio signal when they’re working, especially this time of year. We’re glad we could launch the site this fall,” said Illinois Public Media agricultural director Dave Dickey. “It has the information farmers care most about like our analysis and discussion of the weather.”
On the mobile site, users can also access agricultural news from the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences including Farmdocdaily, The Bulletin and ACES News, and sign up to receive the WILL Ag enewsletter.
The mobile site also has a QR-Code that can be scanned by a smart phone to take a user directly to the mobile website.
The site will also be useful in the next couple of weeks when WILL-AM 580 will significantly lower its power so work can be done on its transmission tower. People who are unable to hear the signal can access ag programming through a live stream on the regular willag.org website, archives on the regular willag.org website and the new mobile site.
Todd Gleason, host of the Closing Market Report and Commodity Week, helped design the mobile site. “We strive to be on the leading edge of farm broadcasting, and are happy we’re able to bring our agricultural analysis to a new platform,” he said.