{{Short description|United States agricultural trade magazine}} {{For|the orchestral work of the same name|Douglas Moore}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Farm Journal | logo = | logo_size = <!-- default is 180px --> | image_file = <!-- cover.jpg (omit the "file:" prefix) --> | image_size = <!-- default is 180px --> | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = <!-- up to |editor6= --> | editor_title = <!-- up to |editor_title6= --> | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = | frequency = | format = | circulation = | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = Wilmer Atkinson | founded = | firstdate = {{Start date and age|1877|03}} | finaldate = <!-- {{End date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | finalnumber = | company = Farm Journal Media | country = United States | based = | language = English | website = {{URL|https://www.agweb.com/farm-journal-magazine}} | issn = 0014-8008 | eissn = | oclc = }} '''''Farm Journal''''' is a United States agricultural trade magazine that was established in 1877, and is the leading{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} United States farm magazine.
==History== Wilmer Atkinson founded the publication in Philadelphia in March 1877 as a small eight-page monthly magazine. Atkinson was editor for 40 years.<ref name="historymott">Mott, Frank Luther. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zt1V-ISXFsoC&pg=PA153 A History of American Magazines, Volume III: 1865-1885], p. 153 (1938, 4th printing 1970)</ref><ref name="latime85">(9 May 1985). [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-09-fi-6686-story.html Customized Service: 8,896 Versions of One Issue : Farm Journal, 107 Years Old, Has Kept Abreast of Change], ''Los Angeles Times''</ref>
After advertising revenue dropped greatly in the early 1930s, the publication went into receivership in 1935, and new owners installed Graham Patterson as its publisher. Patterson revived the publication, tripling its advertising revenue of 1935 by 1937, and adding 338,000 subscribers.<ref name="farmpress">Evans, James. F. [https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Station-Books/Prarie-Farmer-and-WLS-Evans-1969.pdf Prairie Farmer and WLS], p. 83 (1969)</ref> ''The Farmer's Wife'' was acquired in 1939. In 1955, the magazine (with a circulation then of 2.8 million) acquired ''The Country Gentleman'' (circulation 2.5 million), the second most popular agricultural magazine, from Curtis Publishing Company.<ref name="nyt1farm">(8 June 1955). [https://www.nytimes.com/1955/06/08/archives/curtis-publishing-sells-a-magazine.html Curtis Publishing Sells A Magazine], ''The New York Times'' p. 21 (paywall)</ref><ref name="quebral">Quebral, Nora Cruz. [https://www.proquest.com/openview/cfe8d4958173b8968139fd950639652e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y 'Farm Journal' and American Agriculture, 1877-1965] (1966, Ph.D. Thesis)</ref><ref name="timeacqui">(20 June 1955). [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,861620,00.html Room with a View], ''Time (magazine)''</ref>
As of 2001 (its 125 anniversary year), its circulation was 700,000.<ref name="125thart">Bergstrom, Bill (25 June 2001). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=20010625&id=4os1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=mqwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3772,4687818 Farm Journal is a national staple after 125 years of publishing], ''Argus-Press''</ref>
According to the magazine's website in 2022, the magazine currently publishes 13 issues a year and has 335,000 subscribers. Clinton Griffiths has served as editor since 2019.<ref name="2022stat">[https://www.farmjournal.com/brands/farm-journal/ Farm Journal], Farmjournal.com, Retrieved 7 June 2022</ref>
The publication's parent company Farm Journal Media also publishes ''The Packer'' and ''Drovers Magazine''. Its subsidiary Farm Journal Broadcast produces the television programs ''AgDay'' (hosted by Griffiths), ''U.S. Farm Report'' and ''Machinery Pete''.
In March 2025, Farm Journal unveiled plans to place all their programs along with all of its others behind a paywall with the launch of its Farm Journal TV paid streaming service. <ref>{{cite web |title=Farm Journal Launches Streaming Service Dedicated to Agriculture |url=https://www.farmjournal.com/farm-journal-launches-streaming-service-dedicated-to-agriculture/ |website=Farm Journal |access-date=March 3, 2025}}</ref> It partially reversed this decision in May with its decision to launch a free ad-supported streaming television service, Farm Journal Now.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AgriMarketing.com - Farm Journal Sets Its Sights On Streaming, Departs From RFD-TV |url=https://www.agrimarketing.com/s/153240#:~:text=To%20advance%20its%20next-generation%20video%20and%20audience%20development,distribute%20content%20through%20RFD-TV,%20effective%20April%2027,%202025. |access-date=2025-06-13 |website=www.agrimarketing.com}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=farmjournal List of available digitized and out of copyright volumes] from the Online Books Page * [https://archive.org/details/pub_farm-journal Archive at archive.org] * [https://www.farmjournal.com/about/ FarmJournal.com]
Category:Magazines established in 1877 Category:Agricultural magazines published in the United States