Modern Farmer (magazine)

Modern Farmer
Cover of issue 01
Cover of issue 01
FrequencyQuarterly
Founded2013
Final issue2018 (print)
CompanyModern Farmer Media
CountryUnited States
Based inHudson, New York
LanguageEnglish
Websitemodernfarmer.com
ISSN2326-0807

Modern Farmer is a quarterly American magazine devoted to agriculture and food, founded in April 2013.[1][2] The magazine is unique in that it attempts to have equally rural and urban readers,[3] and to "appeal to the person who wants to romanticize farming and the person who is knee deep in turkey droppings", according to The New York Times.[2] In 2014, the publication won the National Magazine Awards for the Magazine Section.[4]

Modern Farmer covers feature livestock and its articles include those like a series of interviews with agriculture ministers from around the globe.[5] Its stories tend to take a "farm to table" perspective, comprehensively covering food and agriculture topics like Greek yogurt or feral pigs.[6] In addition to the print magazine, it has a popular website; its "goatcam", a public web cam of goats, produced 60,000 pageviews alone.[7]

  1. ^ Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke (January 23, 2015). "R.I.P Modern Farmer: Media's Favorite Farming Mag Folds". The Observer. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Christine Haughney (September 17, 2013), "A Magazine for Farm-to-Table", The New York Times
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYT2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "National Magazine Award Winners 1966–2014", American Society of Magazine Editors
  5. ^ Andrew Beaujon (November 1, 2013), "For Modern Farmer, farm stands hold more promise than newsstands", Poynter
  6. ^ Jessica Gelt (July 10, 2013), "Modern Farmer: New magazine tells the stories behind your food", LA Times
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Businessweek2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).