I’d like to welcome a new advertiser to World Dairy Diary. It’s Commodity Update. Here’s what the company’s latest announcement says about the service. By the way, I’ve been subscribing myself on my Palm Treo Sprint phone and I’m getting my market prices every day just like promised.
Commodity Update of Saint Paul, MN has successfully launched the first fully customizable cell phone delivery service for commodity markets. Commodity Update is the first service of its kind that delivers critical market data and other information instantly and directly to a user’s cell phone wherever they are. The service works on virtually any cell phone. It requires no new equipment and no cumbersome web browsing on your phone.
For any producer who has ever wished they had a market data terminal in their pickup, tractor, or pocket, Commodity Update provides the solution. Commodity Update CEO Joel Jaeger, who is a farmer himself, says their goal is to get farmers the information they need when they need it.
“It’s very difficult to get timely and accurate market information when you are sitting in your tractor out in the field. So, in many ways this service was born out of necessity for us and we found an opportunity to deliver information to the cell phone that the farmer carries in his pocket.”
Jaeger says the service was designed to be fully customized. “We call it on schedule or on demand so the farmer has full discretion over when they want the information delivered to them and what kinds of information they want delivered to them.”