Magazine for the serious small/hobby farmer

Bkpigs · Dec 3, 2013

Anyone have a suggestion for a magazine for the serious small/hobby farmer? I tried Mother Earth News but half the time is seemed like more Country Living than farming. I get Successful Farming from my dad and that is good if you farm like the big boys but I am far from that. Not really looking for organic but would like some more stuff on the "old" ways like in the 50's or so. Loose housed hogs, outdoor hogs, loose range chickens, and raising steers not in a feedlot but definitely not a grass fed deal. I know that is a lot to ask from a magazine but is there anything close to that? I worked most my life in modern ag and got 2 degrees in college for it to. Just trying to find something to fill out the rest. Appreciate it!

oj · Dec 3, 2013

could try Acres USA... it's organic leaning, lots of
stuff on "natural"...

JD Seller · Dec 3, 2013

Small Farm Today and Hobby Farm are two magazines that cover a lot of old farming practices. I have read both and they have a lot of older types/styles of farming practices in them.

On line there is Small Farm and Country living digital magazine. This comes up in a lot of searches I do on old farming practices.

Also The Rodale books are interesting. They are full organic but that is what all farming was before the 1950s.
Small Farm Today magazine

Hobby Farms magazine

JMS/.MN · Dec 4, 2013

Except for DDT!!! LOL! Been watching some JD factory videos from the 30s, JD Days Movies. Spraying orchards with the old 2 bangers. Fogging the entire countryside. Factory painters didn"t wear masks either. And why didn"t the yellow paint drift from the wheels to the already painted green tractors?

Bret4207 · Dec 4, 2013

There isn't much left in the magazine industry anymore. Internet has killed of most of them. Countryside magazine isn't bad for what you're looking for. Small Farmers Journal, if it ever gets printed again, is good for 30-50's stuff but it's mostly horse oriented. Everything else seems to be for the citiot on his 2.3 acre "estate" or the BTO with a few million bucks tied up in equipment.

Best bet is to find something online that works for you.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 4, 2013

Countryside and Acres USA.Also Fur-Fish-Game for practical hunting/trapping/varmint control ideas.
F-F-G also has a running series by Maurice Decker from the 40's and 50's thats worth the subscription cost.

Dr. Walt · Dec 4, 2013

You might try this:

FARM SHOW MAGAZINE
P.O. Box 1029
Lakeville, Minn. 55044

A great magazine & NO ADS!

Doc

dmiller · Dec 4, 2013

Depends on what you want. Are you looking for human interest stories about hobby places and hippies getting to know the land, if so there are quite a few different options.
If you are looking for actual informative articles about how to do things for the guy who is basically farming in the 50's due to small land availability, older equipment, barns that aren't always plumbed or have power etc. Then there's not much out there. I have had more luck looking through extension bulletins on the internet than any magazine I can find.
I agree though that there is a small market for such a magazine.

jhilyer · Dec 4, 2013

Small Farmer's Journal

It deals a lot with animal power, but also just regular small farm practices.

They have a website. It's a quarterly magazine, physically large and thick, printed on heavy paper, not glossy. Or it least that's how it was, back when I had a subscription.

Also Rural Heritage - pretty good & they have a website, too.

Dave O'Brien · Dec 4, 2013

"Rural Heritage" magazine has a fair amount of small-scale/sustainable ag information.

55deere70 · Dec 4, 2013

"Backwoods Home" magazine. We get Grit, Countryside, and Mother Earth News. I like Backwoods the best,

C W Hinton · Dec 4, 2013

BACKWOODS HOME is an excellent magazine.

Bill(Wis) · Dec 5, 2013

Fogging, yes. DDT, no. DDT was first used during the last half of WWII (The Big One) for areas of the world plagued with malaria. It wasn't made available as a commercial insecticide until after the war. As I remember, around 1946?

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