{"id":29381,"date":"2025-11-06T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29381"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:14:07","slug":"farmers-almanac-to-cease-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/11\/farmers-almanac-to-cease-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers&#8217; Almanac to cease publication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was surprised to read on Facebook today that the Farmers&#8217; Almanac is stopping publication after the 2026 Almanac after publishing continuously since 1818. They did not give a reason for stopping as far as I can tell. While scientists generally don&#8217;t consider their weather and climate forecasts to be particularly accurate (they have been calculated to be 52% right on average), they were fun to read and had a lot of other useful information for gardeners and others. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmersalmanac.com\/fond-farewell-from-farmers-almanac\">https:\/\/www.farmersalmanac.com\/fond-farewell-from-farmers-almanac<\/a>. I guess the Old Farmer&#8217;s Almanac will still be publishing but I don&#8217;t know how that compares to the Farmers&#8217; Almanac. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmersalmanac.com\/fond-farewell-from-farmers-almanac\">https:\/\/www.farmersalmanac.com\/fond-farewell-from-farmers-almanac<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/farm-in-fall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/farm-in-fall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/farm-in-fall.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/farm-in-fall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/farm-in-fall-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.ForestWander.com, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to read on Facebook today that the Farmers&#8217; Almanac is stopping publication after the 2026 Almanac after publishing continuously since 1818. They did not give a reason for stopping as far as I can tell. While scientists generally don&#8217;t consider their weather and climate forecasts to be particularly accurate (they have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29382,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29381\/revisions\/29382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}