The Farmers’ Almanac, citing a “chaotic media environment”, will cease publication after their 2026 edition. The almanac dates back to 1818.

It’s the Maine one, not the main one — a 208-year-old, Maine-based publication that farmers, gardeners and others have relied on for planting guidance and weather predictions will publish for the final time.

(Not to be confused with its older, longtime competitor, The Old Farmer’s Almanac in neighboring New Hampshire).

That pre-dates QST magazine by almost a century.

I don’t like change. That probably says more about my age than the grey hair on my head, but I still don’t like it. And please, don’t bother telling me “change is inevitable” and “the only thing constant is change”. That’s just a nonsensical form of capitulation.

It’s obvious the world of publishing has been unfairly punished by the relentless march to change everything, even if it brings no improvement. Digital books and magazines are born losers. The number of readers of those formats comes nowhere near the number of people who used to read the printed media. Advertising rates are nowhere near the same either as a publisher could count the actual number of printed magazines distributed, but has a much tougher time “proving” how many ads were viewed in a digital format.

Its like our entire world is suffering from Alzheimer’s and we’re all just watching it slowly fade away.