Wallaces Farmer
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Wallaces Farmer is an agricultural newspaper based in Des Moines, Iowa. It is owned by media company Informa and operates as part of the company's Farm Progress division.
History
The newspaper's lineage can be traced back to the 1850s and two separate publications, the Northwestern Farmer and Horticultural Journal and the Iowa Farmer and Horticulturist, which merged in 1861 to become The Iowa Homestead and Northwestern Farmer; the name eventually shortened to The Iowa Homestead.
The first issue of the combined Wallaces Farmer and Iowa Homestead came out in October 1929, as the stock market began to crash. The publication faltered, and in 1932 Dante Pierce, son of James M. Pierce, came back as receiver; he purchased the publication at a sheriff's sale in 1935. After Dante Pierce's death in 1955, the publication was sold to the publishers of Prairie Farmer, and the name was shortened to Wallaces Farmer.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "History of Wallaces Farmer". Feedstuffs. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
Further reading
- Kirkendall, Richard S. Ed., “A Magazine Called Wallaces’ Farmer”, The Goldfinch, vol. 12, no. 3 (February 1991), pp. 14–15. Available at Iowa Pathways Television.
External links
- Wallaces’ Farmer at informa.com.
- Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections: Wallaces’ Farmer (1898-1950)
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