Is profi worth buying?

Foxcover

Member
Cancelled years ago.
Occasionally but it in shops if there’s something interesting in it, hated the political stuff but love the fleet profiles.
Subscribed to Classic Tractor and enjoy reading farm contractor and large scale farmer mag too.
 

Martin Holden

Member
Trade
Location
Cheltenham
oh dear god no.

massey are crap
fendt are over priced crap
jd are crap
nh and case are cheap crap
ford go porous
davy broons have weak cranks
kubota are too orange
deutz are excellent for 2 years, then owners mysteriously go quiet and buy a valtra, which are of course excellent instead.


oh and tedders simply must have hooked tines.
choppers must throw to the right

that about covers it

no need for a magazine.
Ah, you’ve no sense of humour (mind you’re about right!)
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Can’t see @Clive editing a machinery magazine. I think he just sees tractors etc as a nessecary evil to get the job done.

However start a magazine called electric Porsche owner and you may see a spark of interest from him on the subject?

one magazine is enough thanks ! It’s hard work

trouble with most magazines is they lack independence, I used to get Profi for free after buying a Claas combine .......................... tells me all I need to know and why I don’t subscribe
 

Drillman

Member
Mixed Farmer
one magazine is enough thanks ! It’s hard work

trouble with most magazines is they lack independence, I used to get Profi for free after buying a Claas combine .......................... tells me all I need to know and why I don’t subscribe
I don’t buy many for exactly the same reason!
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
I don’t buy any. Why should anyone pay to be advertised to these days ? All these magazine have their business model wrong IMO and are slowly drowning as a result. Internet has changed everything for ever
Its amazing how ignorant many people are to it though. If its pointed out to you its obvious.

Its the same with these big chemical suppliers open days! They're just getting you into a room to brainwash you into what they want you to buy. You should feel stupid/are a crap farmer if you don't buy/use them
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Its amazing how ignorant many people are to it though. If its pointed out to you its obvious.

Its the same with these big chemical suppliers open days! They're just getting you into a room to brainwash you into what they want you to buy. You should feel stupid/are a crap farmer if you don't buy/use them

we think we farm yet increasingly I understand we are actually farmed !
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
On separate subject I can't buy the farmers weekly in my area anymore as most shops and newsagents have stopped stocking it due to poor sales

You can easy get a subscription at cheap rates - just ring them up and tell them what you want to pay. Over 1000 people pay between 20-50% of the full subscription rate. Another 11k pay between 50% and 90%.

35 people are paying less than 20% - kudos to them. They can negotiate!
 

Martin Holden

Member
Trade
Location
Cheltenham
one magazine is enough thanks ! It’s hard work

trouble with most magazines is they lack independence, I used to get Profi for free after buying a Claas combine .......................... tells me all I need to know and why I don’t subscribe
Without advertising, no farming magazine could survive. That’s the way of the world unless recipients are prepared to pay for it. Lament the day when Power Farming stopped. Those were the days.
 

vantage

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
You can easy get a subscription at cheap rates - just ring them up and tell them what you want to pay. Over 1000 people pay between 20-50% of the full subscription rate. Another 11k pay between 50% and 90%.

35 people are paying less than 20% - kudos to them. They can negotiate!
How do you know?
 

40 series

Member
I keep buying it. I like something to read at break times. Some months it's ok some dire. I do like the cost management fleet sections but
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
How do you know?

Official stats are published every year as ABCs (I've attached a few of them if you are interested). Shows that readership has fallen from 60k in 2011 to I'd guess at 37K in 2019 (figures aren't out for last year) yet.

To put that in context, that £4m in lost subscriptions over 8 years. Shows why they have had to change their business. Still a massive farming magazine though!
 

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SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.9%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 63 34.2%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.3%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 6 3.3%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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