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AGWEB LAUNCHES MAPS TO TRACK 2012 PLANTING PROGRESS
Apr. 13, 2012
Source: Farm Journal Media news release
As the global watch on agriculture continues into the planting season, AgWeb recently launched three interactive Planting Maps to demonstrate how planting is progressing across the U.S. this spring.
"We had an extreme amount of success with the Harvest Maps we launched in September 2011, and we felt the need to bring farmers yet another tool that allows them to obtain accurate and timely information in one convenient location," said Charlene Finck, Senior Vice President of Editorial and Content Development for Farm Journal Media.
Using USDA's weekly Crop Production reports, the Planting Maps are updated each Monday, showing the increased planting progress for corn, soybeans and spring wheat. Similar to AgWeb's Harvest Maps, the Planting Maps show, by color, the percentage planted in a given state. The maps resemble a stock heat map, but rather than stock values, the values on these maps are percentage planted, with the colors changing based on the actual percentage planted as reported by USDA.
In addition to showcasing USDA's reports on the country's planting progress, AgWeb lets farmers submit their own crop photos or planting reports, which are featured in the popular Crop Comments section. Farmers and online users can also receive the latest planting updates on Twitter and contribute to the online conversation using the hashtag #plant12.
The recently launched Planting Maps follow the latest success of AgWeb's Harvest Maps, which captured a win for Editorial Excellence - Special Section (in the b2b category) at min's Best of the Web Awards last week. The section averaged 5,000 page views a day for the first month and has received nearly 250,000 page views since its launch, according to Google Analytics.
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