Shoutout to my friends and colleagues in the #Extension Service for showing me years ago the value of #micrblogging to reach an information-hungry end-user community with timely updates on things like #crop #pest outbreaks and weather damage effects of crop future prices. Most must remain on #Twitter to continue serving these end-user communities, most of whom are going to get caught flat-footed by the coming Twitter flameout. I'm pushing for #LandGrant #universities to establish their own institutional #Mastodon servers as a means to help their #faculty and external constituents maintain their important information networks.