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In an effort to add a greater variety of news and features to Farm World, there are a few new features to the newspaper that readers may want to check out this week.
First, and something that some of our readers may not know, our publishing business in Knightstown, Ind. does not only print Farm World. For 40 years, we have also printed AntiqueWeek, which is the largest-circulated, weekly newspaper covering antiques and collectibles.
The AntiqueWeek staff, led by Editor Connie Swaim, produces interesting and informative stories that are of interest to most people who have some older items around the house. This week, Farm World has included two pages of news plucked from the pages of AntiqueWeek. One these pages Eric Rodenberg, one of AntiqueWeek’s editors, writes about the 100th anniversary of the Ford Model T and the celebration planned for this occasion in Richmond, Ind. from July 21-28. This story and photos are on pages 20-21.
Swaim also will try to answer your questions about the origins of your antiques. To see how to submit questions, read her column on page 21.
Similarly, our Knightstown business also publishes The Auction Exchange and Collector’s News. The Auction Exchange is among the leading newspapers covering the auction industry. It has been published from Knightstown since September 2004, and the news is gathered by Editor Starr Keller.
In this week’s Farm World, on page 17B, we have published an auction-law column written by Auction Exchange columnist Steve Proffitt.
More auction-related stories will come from Auction Exchange in future issues of Farm World.
But as they say on late-night television info-mercials, that’s not all!
Farm World has also added a couple of new columnists. Appearing for the first time in this week’s issue is John Schwarz, who will write an agricultural-law column for us called Letter of the Law.
Schwarz practices agricultural law with Simmons-Brown & Cress, in Angola, Ind., and he actively participates in his family’s grain farm. In his first installment, Schwarz covers the liabilities and legalities of allowing other people onto your farmland for recreational uses such as deer hunting or searching for mushrooms.
Farm World hopes its readers will submit their ag-law questions to Schwarz for future columns.
For a more homespun look at agriculture, Melissa Hart has been writing a column for us called Truth from the Trenches. Hart is a farm wife from Michigan, and she provides a feminine look at life on the farm. This week’s column is on page 6B.
Hart was pressed into service at the same time that Roger Pond suffered an injury in his home. Pond is the author of a long-time Farm World favorite called The Back Forty. Due to injuries from his fall, Pond is unable to write his column for a short time. As soon as Pond is able to work again, Farm World will bring back The Back Forty to its pages.
Farm World is continuing to grow in its size and reach, and as we continue to grow, you may expect to see new additions to the paper. We are considering new features spanning the topics of market analysis and weather forecasting to news about antique tractors and farm equipment.
Feel free to tell us what your favorite aspects of Farm World are, and what you would like to see in the future. You may contact me with your comments by e-mail at davidb@farmworldonline.com |
| 7/2/2008 |
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