Farm Show Magazine

[Iplayfarmer]

Has anyone heard of Farm Show Magazine? I just got a flyer in the mail for it and went ahead and subscribed. Of course the flyer makes it sound like it's the best magazine in the world. I was just wondering if anyone here has experience with it.

 

[chh]

I got it at one time. Several years ago. I haven't seen it in awhile. It is real interesting if you like to build and modify farm equipment.

 

[Soundguy]

As chh said.. it's kinda like a 'newspaper-print type publication. Mostly farmerized equipment.. it's a neat read if you got a hour to kick the feet up while the food digests...

soundguy

 

[ToadHill]

I've subscribed for several years and found some useful tips in it, butit is mostly geared to big equipment.

 

[scesnick]

I really like it. It has a ton of good ideas in it. I believe you can get a free issue form their website. Agriculture equipment, farm magazines, farm equipment, farm inventions, farm machinery, agriculture machinery

 

[N80]

I got a flyer too. I can't see that I'll get any useful or practical info from it for my own purposes (I'm not a farmer or anything like one). However, the stuff in the flyer is still very interesting and I think it would be fun to read so I think I might subscribe just for kicks.

For some reason my daughter got me a subscription to 'Hobby Farmer' magazine. (Her school was selling magazines and so I guess since I have a tractor and work on my B-I-L's farm on occasion she thought I'd like it.) In any case, its okay, but not great. Seems to be designed for people with no farming background at all. One of the articles was about how to light a fire in a woodstove.

 

[YanmarFever]

We have subscribed to farm show for the last 5 years. I have used a few of the ideas around here. Like soundguy said its good digestive material.

I like the fact that they put the inventors phone# in all the stories in case you want to shoot the breeze with them.

The editor of FM is a real straight shooter, he would fit right in here at tbn with the rest of us farm pirates

Ernie

 

[Rch]

I've subscribe to Farm Show for 15 years. It carries no ads except for themselves.

It is a favorite for me because of it's originality by chronicling ideas from farmer's workshops and unique operations. One lesson is that many great ideas come out of some workshop and then are picked up by a manufacture and further refined. The seminal idea doesn't originate with the big boys.

Also the entrepreneur spirit abounds with Mom & Pop operations, start-up companies and sincere efforts to be helpful. One section is " My Best and Worst Buys" that could only exist in a publication not dependent on ads. These candid, often biased, revealing vignettes highlight who stands behind their product, common & generic problems in a product line, ingenious solutions and outright scams out there.

It is full of shop and repair tips right out of the trenches from Canada, US, Australia/NZ & Europe plus new equipment from these places. Inventions and unique solutions pepper every issue.

I highly recommend it - it ain't slick, it's uneven, it's meaty and often brilliant. One of a kind, that's for sure. It's only $20 and they offer a free issue; Agriculture equipment, farm magazines, farm equipment, farm inventions, farm machinery, agriculture machinery

 

[hunterridgefarm]

It is an interesting read, like everyone has said. I let mine run out a year ago. Just getting to many mags and not enough time to read them all.

 

[Soundguy]

I agree aout hobby farm. my wife got a subscrip to that and it is pretty watered down. reminds me of something a newbie from the city might read.. or an suburbanite moonlighting as a hobby farmer on weekends.. etc.. I usually only find 1 good article in it.. but i guess it's better than a slap in the face.

Soundguy

I got a flyer too. I can't see that I'll get any useful or practical info from it for my own purposes (I'm not a farmer or anything like one). However, the stuff in the flyer is still very interesting and I think it would be fun to read so I think I might subscribe just for kicks.

For some reason my daughter got me a subscription to 'Hobby Farmer' magazine. (Her school was selling magazines and so I guess since I have a tractor and work on my B-I-L's farm on occasion she thought I'd like it.) In any case, its okay, but not great. Seems to be designed for people with no farming background at all. One of the articles was about how to light a fire in a woodstove.

 

[scott_vt]

Has anyone heard of Farm Show Magazine? I just got a flyer in the mail for it and went ahead and subscribed. Of course the flyer makes it sound like it's the best magazine in the world. I was just wondering if anyone here has experience with it.

Evenin Iplayfarmer,
I would say what I do closely parallels your screen name ! That being said, I did get the flyer in the mail, and for the money I thought I would give it a whack !

I am a steady subscriber to Red Power mag and thought a bit of diversity in the homestead wouldnt hurt !

Ill give you an evaluation when I I get my first copy !

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Evenin Iplayfarmer,
I would say what I do closely parallels your screen name ! That being said, I did get the flyer in the mail, and for the money I thought I would give it a whack !

I am a steady subscriber to Red Power mag and thought a bit of diversity in the homestead wouldnt hurt !

Ill give you an evaluation when I I get my first copy !

We'll have to compare notes. I wonder how long it will take to get the first issue.

 

[Diesel-ME]

I got that mail drop too.... I wonder what the common thread is to have landed on their new mailing list? I wonder how many of us will at least fill out the "Win This Handy Chore Tractor!" contest entry form - thereby getting promoted to their semi-permanent mailing list?

~paul

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I got that mail drop too.... I wonder what the common thread is to have landed on their new mailing list? I wonder how many of us will at least fill out the "Win This Handy Chore Tractor!" contest entry form - thereby getting promoted to their semi-permanent mailing list?

~paul

We call it the "Sucker List". I think there's a similar list for telemarketers. When you finally cave and donate a dollar to someone's fireman's assistance fund, all of a sudden everyone else wanting money calls you within a week.

 

[scott_vt]

I wonder how many of us will at least fill out the "Win This Handy Chore Tractor!" contest entry form - thereby getting promoted to their semi-permanent mailing list?

~paul

Afternoon Paul,
Well I figured I had a better chance of winning that chore tractor with mailing in my subscription than not ! Like I need another tractor !

 

[Iplayfarmer]

...Like I need another tractor !

I thought tractors, clamps, and tarps all were in the same category... As long as you have a place to keep them, you can never have too many.

 

[Soundguy]

I've got lots of problems. but having too many tractors ain't one of them!

soundguy

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Well, here's my follow up after receiving my first issue and the free gifts, "Best of Farm Show" and "Energy Saving Ideas". I've spent numerous hours browsing all three volumes and chuckling over some of the ideas I've seen.

It's probably worth the $14.95 that I spent on it. I haven't seen anything in there yet that has really changed the way I look at the world or how I tinker. It has changed the way I look at grain combines. It seems like every other project in all three volumes was made out of an old grain combine. It makes me wonder if there's some kind of surplus of them laying around.

I'm guessing that after a year I'll probably not renew. The magazine and both free "books" that I got seemed to all have the same basic stuff in them. I'll see if new issues have new ideas that have not already been covered. If I do see new, novel ideas, I'll consider renewing.

The only real complaint that I have is that most of the "articles" really seem to be advertisements for someone's new idea. It's the magazine equivalent of infomercials.

 

[Soundguy]

I also let my subscription run out.. I saw enough things made from combines abd busses to hold me for a loooong time!

soundguy

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I also let my subscription run out.. I saw enough things made from combines abd busses to hold me for a loooong time!

soundguy

I only saw a few busses this time. On the other hand, though, there were at least a dozen fancy contraptions to burn a round bale of straw.