Farm Show publication

[jimmyj]

Any of you guys read a mag called "Farm Show"

It's pretty low tech, but there are some pretty neat home built things in it.

Agriculture equipment, farm magazines, farm equipment, farm inventions, farm machinery, agriculture machinery

 

[Conservation]

Yep. Some of the stuff is just plain dumb. Some of the stuff is pretty cool. Always interesting to read. Seems like the ideas have gone downhill in the last year, but I still look forward to it coming in the mail.

 

[MikeD74T]

Yep. Some of the stuff is just plain dumb. Some of the stuff is pretty cool. Always interesting to read. Seems like the ideas have gone downhill in the last year, but I still look forward to it coming in the mail.

I also await the next issue but find less new with each issue. Some stuff is bogus, like the hydrogen generators getting 2000 MPG, and some is just dumb, who cares that someone's best buy was a combine purchased 35 years ago that lasted for 17 years. Each issue has at least one article that makes you wonder, hmmmmmm, that might work? It amazes me that some have junk worth more than we paid for our new tractors. MikeD74T

 

[deereguy]

We recently got a subscription, I like most of the home-built stuff, but could care less about commercially made products. I like the "Best Of.." book that came out late last year better than the papers that we usually get. You are correct- some of the stuff is just clutter to take up room on a page.

 

[flusher]

Any of you guys read a mag called "Farm Show"

It's pretty low tech, but there are some pretty neat home built things in it.

Agriculture equipment, farm magazines, farm equipment, farm inventions, farm machinery, agriculture machinery

Yah, it's interesting but you have to sort through the BS. I get the impression that some of the stuff is just the good ol boys pulling your leg. I let my subscription lapse.

 

[ToadHill]

I subscribed for almost 10 years but gave it up 2 years ago. It got to the point that I'd seen most of the stuff before in an old issue.

 

[ArTrvlr]

I have been subscribing for a few years now. I agree, seems the really good ideas are farther and farther apart. To me the best use is to just be exposed to some off the wall thinking, then use the best ideas for "seed" to get me thinking how I could improve on it.
jp

 

[germ-X]

"She Uses Compost To Heat Her Greenhouse" was the most interesting one to me in the current issue.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I have been subscribing for a few years now. I agree, seems the really good ideas are farther and farther apart. To me the best use is to just be exposed to some off the wall thinking, then use the best ideas for "seed" to get me thinking how I could improve on it.
jp

That's what I liked about it. There's a certain frame of mind that reading "Farm Show" gets me into. After an hour of reading I start seeing everything as a potential resource for some crazy project I'd never thought of before. I subscribed for a year and kept all of the issues. That was about right. I go back and read past issues every now and then when I'm wanting inspiration.

I do have to wonder about the "Ad Free" concept. Some of the articles and reviews sure read like a late night infomercial.

 

[Kernopelli]

I renewed my subscription a couple of weeks ago. I agree that most of the "WOW" is gone after a couple of years but there is still enough in each issue to keep me interested.
One thing I always like to point out to those that are curious, you can sign up for a free issue on their website. I have recommended this to a number of coworkers and they always get the freebie within a few weeks.

 

[EddieWalker]

I've only read two issues. The first one left me with the feeling that I could either buy it cheaper and easier then make it, or that it was just farm related, and I'm not a farmer. Then a few years later, there was a discussion on it again, so I got another copy of it. I think it was just about the exact same thing as the previous issue. Lots of stuff that I had no use for and thought it would have been easier and cheaper to buy a new one then what it took to make it yourself.

Eddie

 

[Soundguy]

I used to read it, but let my sub run out. just got a renewal option for real cheap so sent it off... will probably keep it a couple years and let it go again....

soundguy

 

[tractorman99]

It seam like after the first year the same thing come over the next year.

Check this out if you have Direct TV RFD TV Prairie Farm Report.

 

[DANOCHEESE]

my cable company carried RFD since the launch. Now RFD caters to the horse crowd. Blue Highways TV is much better. They will be filming the local threshing/plowing contest again this year.

I talked with the Farmshow magaizine editor and he summed it up pretty well. Farmers of today are the most modern bussiness around. Peopel don't have to cobble stuff anymore. He is always looking for story ideas. He said he should change the name to hobby farmer. Peopel still cobble for hobby stuff.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I really like Farmshow especially the home built farm machinery but some of the Ideas are a bit funky. I did like all the combine and bus conversions but the one that stumped me was in one of the last issues that had a tricycle AC with a deere hoe on the wagner loader arms. Said the back end of the tractor wouldnt hold up to it so they mounted it where the loader bucket went. just set it where needed. Looked about as dangerous as crapping on a rattle snake. I hate to see it get like Popular Mechanics I snatched up a few old PM books from the 30s and 40's and really enjoyed them up to the late 80's when actual projects like scooters and farm implements were made. Last one I looked at had a wood project and some new fangled car crud and junk.
Amy wants to take pictures of all the things Ive built around the yard that I use and post them to Farmshow. I know a man that has almost every one from its begining and he said looking back at the years when it was tight that Farmshows interesting projects came out in full.