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  • We are changing

    Almost 4 years ago, we embarked on this journey to bring our farmers a new kind of publication, one that has never been done, in this format before. Not as far as agricultural publications go, anyway. Taking advantage of the new features mobile magazine newsstands, that was first rolled out by Apple for their iOS devices (later followed by Android) presented. We were able to publish a magazine that was not only filled with some of the latest news from around the world, but we were also able to deliver an interactive experience for our readers with embedded videos, interactive…

  • Our June issue is here!!

    Welcome to the June edition of Farmer magazine. For farmers around the globe this time of the year is extremely busy. Here in Western Australia it is a hive of activity as wheat and canola farmers are rushing to finish planting their crops. So far the rainfall in the wheatbelt has been very promising and it is certainly a good start to the season. Looking at tweets coming through on Twitter a lot of farmers in the States are reporting good progress with their planting season. Now onto this month’s issue. We kick things of with an article about the…

  • A text only version for Farmer magazine

      We are happy to announce that we have created a text-only version of our current (June) issue. What is a “text-only” version I hear you ask? Text-only versions of the articles are stripped down versions. No fancy kerning or double columns or anything like that. It is basically the text from the article in a single column format. So why a text-only version? Text only versions makes it a lot easier to read the articles on smaller devices like the iPhone and iPod’s. Whilst the magazine looks pretty on these smaller devices, the moment you zoom in to read…

  • Aaaand Farmer magazine is live!

    by Louis Snyman   It has been an exciting year here at Farmer Magazine. Almost exactly a year ago we purchased a license to publish magazines on Apple’s newsstand. Since then we have been planning, designing and preparing our first magazine for publishing. It was a steep learning curve, but thanks to some brilliant guidance by our licencor we were able to not only prepare the app that allows the readers to actually read the magazine, but also compile our first magazine issue. For those of you that don’t know yet, Farmer Magazine  is a magazine for farmers or agriculturalists in…

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