Drovers Magazine

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Drovers | logo = Drovers logo.svg | logo_size =  | image_file = Chicago Daily Drovers Journal advertisement 1905.jpg | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = Chicago Daily Drovers Journal ad 1905 | editor =  | editor_title =  | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Trade magazine | frequency = monthly | format = | circulation = | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = | founded = 1873 | firstdate =  | finaldate =  | finalnumber = | company = [[Farm Journal (magazine)|Farm Journal]] Media | country = United States | based = [[Lenexa, Kansas]] | language = English | website = {{URL|https://www.drovers.com}} | issn = 1097-9131 | oclc = 38330625 }}

'''''Drovers, America's beef business source''''' (popularly referred to as ''Drovers Magazine'' or ''Drovers'') is a monthly magazine that claims to be the oldest [[livestock]] publication in the [[United States]].<ref>[http://www.drovers.com/bovine_veterinarian.asp?pgID=665 Drovers - FAQs] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609222839/http://www.drovers.com/bovine_veterinarian.asp?pgID=665 |date=June 9, 2007 }}</ref> It derives its name from [[Droving|Drovers]] which is a British term for livestock herding.

==History and profile== Harvey Goodall started the ''Chicago Daily Drovers Journal'' in 1873 to report on the [[Chicago Stockyards]].

In 1917 [[Jay Holcomb Neff]] purchased the publication and merged it with the ''Kansas City Drovers Telegram'', which covered the [[Kansas City Stockyards]].<ref>[http://kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Local&CISOPTR=6851&CISOBOX=1&REC=2 A Condensed History of the Kansas City Area: Its Mayors and Some V. I. P.s by George Fuller Green 1968 (first edition 1950) - Retrieved October 21, 2009 via kchistory.org]</ref>

In 1901 an editorial in the Kansas City Drovers Telegram entitled "Call It The American Royal" was end up causing the Kansas City Livestock Show to change its name to the [[American Royal]].<ref>[http://kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Local&CISOPTR=2877&CISOBOX=1&REC=1 American Royal Origin of Name - The American Royal: 1899-1999 - June 21, 1905 - Retrieved October 21, 2009 via kchistory.org]</ref>

The magazine later became a monthly was published by [[Vance Publishing]] until December 1, 2015. Today, the magazine is published by [[Farm Journal (magazine)|Farm Journal]] Media<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.foliomag.com/2015/vance-publishing-breaks-three-pronged-deal/ | title = Vance Publishing Split Up in Three Separate Deals - Folio | website = Folio | language = en-US | access-date = 2016-02-24 }}</ref> with offices in Kansas City suburb of [[Lenexa, Kansas]].

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==External links== * [http://www.drovers.com/ Official site]

[[Category:Agricultural magazines published in the United States]] [[Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States]] [[Category:Livestock]] [[Category:Magazines established in 1873]] [[Category:Magazines published in Kansas]]