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What is your favorite farming or ranching magazine?

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Just curious to what everyone's favorite farm or ranch magaizine is? I have looked at several and like "Farm and Ranch" but my subscription is up in a month. Just wondering which ones you have seen that have the most info about cattle and farming rather than horses and gardening or rasing Bison like I have seen in the past. Not that there is anything wrong with that for all you Bison ranchers, it just really doesn't apply to me.
 
grass and grain is one I like. it is geared more to the "common" man, I used to take the High Plains Journal, but gave it up, it ws just focusing on the big wheels, and passed up the little guy.

also the freebie that the electric company send out, it always has atricles on these little out of the way places in Kansas.
 
If it's the same Farm and Ranch magazine that I usta get, I cancelled my subscription, it was more photo's of folks that were either dairy, or farmin flowers and such. NOT Cattle ranching. Nothin wrong with dairy farmin mind you, just not what the magazine was put out to be.
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
If it's the same Farm and Ranch magazine that I usta get, I cancelled my subscription, it was more photo's of folks that were either dairy, or farmin flowers and such. NOT Cattle ranching. Nothin wrong with dairy farmin mind you, just not what the magazine was put out to be.
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Damn Sodbusters :wink:
 
The Fence Post

Tri State Livestock News

Both good papers/magazine that speak of agriculture and markets that effect the industry.
 
There's a Canadian publication called "farm Show" that chronicals all those cool innovations that Canadian producers devise during their endless winter. I get my Dad a script for father's day the last several years so I read his copy and raid my mom's fridge.
 
Brad we get to see the RFD-TV version of the magazine, called Farm Show. Has some nifty ideas and inventions from farmers and ranchers. Things they've built themselves to help out around the ranch.
 
Newspapers:

Farm & Ranch Guide, Tri-state Livestock News, Goggins paper,(can't seem to remember the name right now) and The Cattlebusiness weekly. I think that is my favorite one.

They are all good and the last 3 apply mainly to cattle.

Magazines:
Beef and Drovers

I like both of them too.
 
I used to really like Drovers.

I thought they were the best, until about 10 years ago.

They used to have so much more practical, ranch based ideas and suggestions in there.

Anymore, I don't find many that I like on the national scale.

I like Tri-State Livestock, and Farm and Ranch when home MT.
Farm show magazine is cool, I used to love to read and re-read that one in the Winter.

For purebreeders, I like Troy Marshall's Seedstock Digest. I get Kit Pharo's newsletter. Neither of these do I agree with entirely, I just like to try and cover all my "thinking" bases. I can take home something from each, and disagree with each.

For breed Journals, two are far ahead of the others. Red Angus, and Simmental, in no order, both are great. Gelbvieh and Hereford would follow. Angus is completely hit and miss. Some good stuff in each one, but then a whole load of not so good stuff. I find they tend to sway things far too much towards "their" programs, than "total management", for my taste. They only know how to do one thing, and that is their thing, to the exclusion of all else. The other breeds (even Hereford in the last few years) can see the bigger picture.

Badlands
 
'Cattlemen'-the Canadian version I've got 36 years of it squirrelled away up here. I like 'Beef' magazine from the U'S' but for thought provoking articles the 'Stockman Grass Farmer' is by far the best-some are a bit 'out there' but all are intertesting. You would all like to dig through my archives-got alot of reading material-thirty years of A'I catalogues are pretty fun stuff to look back through.
 
I'll disagree with you Badlands on the Angus Journal.

If you ignore all the fancy ads for big money "ranches", you are left with about 6-8 articles each month that really drive home some good points about production methods. Hitting targets in terms of grade and yield, and satisfying the consumer.

They just finished reporting on the BIF conference. Nothing there is even about the Angus Association.

Articles like creep feeding alternatives can be used by anyone.

Body condition scores and feed utilization for cows heading into winter are breed neutral.

If a cattle producer was to actually read every article on management and cattle reproduction, feeding and care in the Angus Journal for a year, they would likely have a better understanding of cattle production than the majority of producers currently running cows.
 
Faster horses said:
I think "BEEF" magazine is pretty special and it is free.

If you want to subscribe, I'll be happy to provide the address.

Mr. FH reads Farm and Ranch Guide, but I don't.
Wayyyy too thick and too much machinery for me.
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Hey FH:

As Mr FH is reading the Farm and Ranch Guide, make sure he pulls out the recipes section, and the Val Farmer section (usually pretty close to each other) for you! That Gail (the food editor) puts some awesome recipes in there!!! And Dr. Val usually has good advice for farm and ranch families (probably would include not packing home a pup or kitten without permission, like Lilly's try post is giving me courage to do!)

The only problem is we only get one FR Guide for the whole four family outfit, and we're usually last to see it, so the recipes, and sometimes Dr. Farmer, have been cut out by the time it gets to me :roll:

Cheers---

TTB :wink:
 
I'm glad to hear Tri-State Livestock News brought up as one of the favorities because our local paper is owned by Country Media,
the same company that owns Tri-State. They are in the process of
hiring someone to do more feature stories, which will be a very nice
addition. I have encouraged them to carry Dean Meyer's "Hat Tips" column, which might be in the plans now.

Drovers carries too many articles that are not complete. Their stories can leave you with the wrong impression. Some of the articles are 'cut to fit' and don't tell the whole story or at the least, leaves the reader with the
wrong impression. I think they get 'slanted stories' from places that have something to gain...JMO. So we quit getting Drovers.
 
Pat Goggin's rag is pretty good for starting the wood stove on a cold morning lol-I shudder when I think of the money I made the old hypocrite selling semen on his bulls over the years-we even bought a bull at Midland preBSE lol-don't tghink I'll be dealing with Leo again in this lifetime-maybe if we both wind up in purgatory at the same time lol.
 
Jason,

OK to disagree, I probably provide a more "critical" review than most.

We are in agreement about most of the management articles, but many can be found in any number of publications.


What I was refering to was the skewed data that is normally presented in terms of CAB, Tri-County Futurity, Grade and yield targets, a decidedly non-crossbred commercial cow agenda, etc. Those types of articles do little to help overall industry profitability, as they are produced from skewed, selected data.

I like most of the articles written by "outside" sources, but many of the articles written by association staff are just "off", for lack of a better word. Though, lately, I do appreciate some of the commentary. I'm pretty sure they are taking high temperature heat for some of the work in the last 8 months.

FWIW, I've been in a couple of those articles in the last 2-3 years, as a researcher. I hold a different opinion then, than Angus breeders reading their own journal.

Like I said, the "outside" articles are generally good, the "inside" articles are misleading at most turns.

Badlands.
 
This would hafta be my favorite "ranchin" magazine of todays time.

http://www.thecattlemanmagazine.com/

But many moons ago, I loved readin Grandad's "Farmer Stockman" magazines. Usta sit in his lap and read them with him in his easy chair. Or when he was busy out doin somethin, I'd sit in his easy chair and read while he wasn't there. Prolly more lookin at pictures than readin, but later on, when I married Mr Lilly and we'd come down here to visit his grandparent's, I'd sit in his Grandad's chair and read his Farmer Stockman magazines. LOL
 
My favourite is Canadian Cattleman.

NR-I think im gonna have to stop by-dad threw out all my old AI books I scammed rrom the neighbours. lol. Its amazing how much things have changed, eh? From meaty bulls to flashy, showy type bulls.
 
Look up Harts Wild Turkey in an old ABS book and tell me if you think that scarecrow is straight Angus-bulls in 1977 and 1997 were almost identical in some breeds.
 
Northern Rancher said:
Look up Harts Wild Turkey in an old ABS book and tell me if you think that scarecrow is straight Angus-bulls in 1977 and 1997 were almost identical in some breeds.
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Funny you should mention that particular bull.

He made some breeders in Alberta a ton of money.

We tried him but didn't like the BW that started showing up. I had a son of his out of an old line Canadian pedigreed cow, beautiful bull. I had some pasture stocker type cows that year, mostly Hereford, and I put him with those cows. The calves came out with a typical Simm x curly hair and coloring. Wild Turkey had passed all the blood tests and was classed as typical Angus. We made the descision to cull the line because the traits weren't typical Angus. That fall we saw an ad for a sale in the Angus Journal, Harts Angus and Black Simmental, coincidence is too much.
 

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