Talk:Farmers' Almanac

Perhaps this article should describe 18th and 19th century American farmers' almanacs in general, with a pointer to The Old Farmer's Alamanac, and also mentions competing alamanacs, such as the "Farmer's Alamanac".

Not an Ad
Hi everyone. I saw in the contributions that User:PleonardFA disclosed that he works for the Famers' Almanac. Just a quick reminder - you can't use Wikipedia as a place to promote the almanac. Its not a soapbox to advertise. See the following: [[WP:SOAP]

Certainly monitor it to make sure no one is writing obvious falsehoods, but you really should not be editing the page of a company at which you are employed. We want to always make sure that articles are WP:NPOV so you can't come on and remove well-sourced information that other editors provide, even if it is critical of the Farmers' Almanac. -- Darryl.jensen (talk) 17:58, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Witchcraft?
Why isn't there a section about witchcraft on this entry? Or are the witches controlling Wikipedia, too?

What? Can you clarify your thoughts more? 98.103.160.18 (talk) 15:12, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Because you've not added that information. Dont wait for others to do it.--RadioFan (talk) 01:20, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Confusion
Did a little research on "the" farmer's almanac. There appears to be two competing almanacs that both claim to be very accurate in there prediction of future weather patterns. Have seen only one news article that even mentions that there is an "old farmer's almanac" and a "farmer's almanac". Both have web sites, both are books you can buy. I found various news organizations that had articles mentioning the annual debuts of each publication and each almanac's predictions of future weather. Very weird. It is like there are two different universes. One with one almanac and one with another and neither universes aware that others exist. ---

This confusion seems to have crept into this article as well. The first paragraph in the Weather Predictions section says "Scientific studies of these claims have shown them to be false. On average the Almanac's predictions are no better than chance." but both references sited are about the Old Farmer's Almanac's accuracy, not the subject of this article. 71.254.108.219 (talk) 01:29, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Merge Removal
Merge notice removed since target is an unrelated topic. Pulled untrue info from the article. -Howardjp 15:30, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

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Philom.?
What's the deal with the History section mentioning that Geiger and Duncan are Philomaths...?

What is that, is that like a degree or a diploma you can buy off the Internet? :D 88.112.4.174 (talk) 16:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Hm! Looks like it's a matter of almanac tradition: the 1739 Edition of Poor Richard's Almanac says "Richard Saunders, Philom." (aka Benjamin Franklin) on its cover. 88.112.4.174 (talk) 16:43, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Other Farmers' Almanacs
Currently, this one and the Old Farmer's Almanac (note position of apostrophe) seem to be all there is. When I added the "full moons" section here, I misunderstood this to be the "Maine Farmers' Almanac" because (a) it is published in Maine and (b) its website is the primary online source for "full moon names". But, as the hatnote correctly (albeit without reference) claimed, the Maine FA was a different publication. It was not, however "a 19th-century publication" exclusively, it survived until at least 1972 or 1973. So this needs some clarification. When did the Maine FA disappear and what happened to it? Was it bought up by this one? And were there other Farmers' Almanacs besides these three? Was "Farmers' Almanac" a generic term for an unknown number of publications which appeared regionally, or were there just these three? --dab (𒁳) 13:02, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

It's even worse, this reference is not to "Maine Farmers' Almanac" but to "Maine 'Farmer's Almanac'", i.e. the formerly non-Maine FA now published in Maine, but unrelated(?) to the former Maine Farmers' Alamnac. The last confirmed "Maine Farmers' Almanac" is the 1968 issue, "No. 150". Something must have happened after 1968. For the period 1969 to 1973, "Maine Farmers' Almanac" still appears in the Catalog of Copyright Entries but I am not sure if it actually still appeared. Geiger's FA moved to Maine in 1955, and it is plausible, I suppose, that the "native" Maine FA was killed off by the competition. --dab (𒁳) 13:10, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Weather forcasting
The two Almanacs "The Old Farmer's Almanac" and "The Farmers' Almanac" both claim 80% success but only "The Old Farmer's Almanac" has be tested academically as far as I can discern. The Walsh and Allen article from 1981 refers to "The Old Farmer's Almanac" and there is only one study done that I can find.

The sentence "However independent studies that retrospectively compare the weather with the predictions have not shown them more accurate than chance." is doubly false since there is only a single study and it does not pertain to "The Farmers' Almanac"

I am removing the sentence and the reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:4441:A501:38AE:591C:DC03:1D5A (talk) 14:15, 6 April 2015 (UTC)