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Hog, Poultry, Sheep, Goat and Bee Magazines
Publications for pork producers, poultry keepers, sheep and goat raisers, wool growers and beekeepers.
This section of FarmPress.org profiles 17 publications. Each profile covers the title's history, its current publisher and format, what it is publishing now, its editors and staff, and links to the agriculture authorities and sources behind the facts.
- American Bee JournalAmerican Bee Journal, the oldest English-language beekeeping magazine, founded 1861 and published by Dadant in Hamilton, Illinois: history, columns and editors.
- American Sheep MagazineAmerican Sheep Magazine, official publication of the American Sheep Industry Association, successor to Sheep Industry News: its history, coverage and staff.
- Backyard PoultryBackyard Poultry magazine profile: the bimonthly small-flock title from Ogden Publications in Topeka, Kansas, its coverage and editor-in-chief Audra Trosper.
- Bee CultureBee Culture magazine, the monthly begun by A.I. Root as Gleanings in Bee Culture in the 1870s, published in Medina, Ohio: history, content and editors.
- ChickensChickens magazine, the bimonthly backyard poultry title launched in 2010 by the editors of Hobby Farms: its history, publisher, coverage and contributors.
- Goat JournalGoat Journal, the former Dairy Goat Journal, now part of Ogden Publications' Countryside family: its century-long history, quarterly content and readers.
- Iowa Pork ProducerIowa Pork Producer magazine from the Iowa Pork Producers Association: its long history, coverage of Iowa hog farming, IPPA programs and communications staff.
- National Hog FarmerNational Hog Farmer history from C.R. Mitchell's 1950s founding through five editors to its digital pork coverage under Farm Progress today.
- News For EweNews For Ewe, the member newsletter of the Idaho Wool Growers Association, founded 1893 in Boise: the association's history, programs and Idaho sheep industry.
- Pork Business (Farm Journal's PORK)Pork Business and Farm Journal's PORK magazine: the 2003 Pork Business Journal launch, PorkBusiness.com, eight issues a year and editor Jennifer Shike.
- Poultry TimesPoultry Times, the Gainesville, Georgia poultry industry newspaper founded in 1954: its history, ownership, coverage and editor David Strickland.
- Ranch & Rural LivingRanch & Rural Living, the San Angelo monthly that began as the Sheep and Goat Raisers' Magazine, official publication of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers.
- The Berkshire NewsThe Berkshire News, breed publication of the American Berkshire Association, the 1875 swine registry: its history, purebred hog coverage and its readers.
- The Boer GoatThe Boer Goat magazine from the American Boer Goat Association in San Angelo, Texas: ABGA's 1993 founding, its readers, coverage and editorial contact.
- The ShepherdThe Shepherd magazine, the national monthly for sheep producers, saved in 2012 by Wyoming ranchers Pete Arambel and Cat Urbigkit: history, content and owners.
- Utah Wool Growers Association NewsletterThe Utah Wool Growers Association newsletter, The Utah Wool Grower: the 1935 Salt Lake City association, its ram sale, Miss Wool contests and sheep industry.
- Wyoming Wool Growers Association NewsletterThe Wyoming Wool Growers Association newsletter: the 1905 Casper sheep group, its member e-newsletter, Wyoming Ram Sale and director Alison Crane.
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