Farm Progress is the publisher of 22 farming and ranching magazines. The company's oldest publication began in 1819. Farm Progress Companies is owned by Informa .
21-635: Farm Progress has the oldest known continuously published magazine, Prairie Farmer , which was launched in 1841. The company publishes 18 regional magazines with local coverage of each agricultural community. Farm Progress produces four annual farm shows including the Farm Progress Show, which launched in 1953. The company currently known as "Farm Progress" started in 1819 with the American Farmer magazine. Prairie Farmer started in 1841, followed by Wallaces Farmer in 1855, which helped chronicle
42-654: A cash and shares deal, Informa acquired the Irish Tarsus Group from Charterhouse Capital Partners for a reported GBP 790m. In January 2024, Informa announced that it would merge the digital business of Informa Tech with TechTarget . The resulting company would keep the TechTarget name with Informa holding 57% stake and the existing TechTarget shareholders holding 43% stake in the merged TechTarget. In June 2024, Informa closed two UK -based titles: Digital TV Europe and Television Business International. In July 2024,
63-467: A field day where farmers could see first-hand the progress being made in farming equipment , along with seed varieties and agricultural chemicals . In subsequent years, the show evolved to include seed test plots and field demonstrations. The show typically was held annually at different sites in Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana. As the event grew, it became apparent that temporary sites were inadequate to handle
84-471: A million journal articles and 13,000 e-books from all its imprints. In June 2011 the journals and e-books transferred to a new website, Taylor & Francis Online. Abstracting and indexing databases and bibliographic databases were to move from Informaworld to Taylor & Francis Online at a later date. In July 2013, the company announced that Peter Rigby would retire at the end of 2013 to be replaced as CEO by Stephen Carter . Also in 2013, Informa acquired
105-621: A service to farmers. The station moved to the Prairie Farmer Building on West Washington Street in Chicago, Illinois where it remained for 32 years. In 1959, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters bought the Farm Progress Group, largely to acquire WLS and consolidate it with ABC station WENR. In 1986, ABC merged with Capital Cities . In 1991, Capital Cities/ABC acquired the farm magazines of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich . In 1996,
126-508: Is developed on about 600 acres (2.4 km) at the intersection of U.S. Highway 30 and Iowa Highway 17 , while the Decatur site includes 640 acres (2.6 km) of exhibits and field demonstrations. The Farm Progress Show is the oldest outdoor agricultural equipment exhibition in the United States, with more than 500 exhibitors. Farm Progress Companies does not release attendance figures, but
147-799: The Disney Company purchased Capital Cities/ABC. In 1997, the Disney Company sold the Farm Progress Companies to Rural Press . Rural Press merged with Fairfax in 2007. In 2012, Fairfax sold Farm Progress to Penton Media . On November 2, 2016, Penton was bought by the UK based company Informa . Farm Progress and its publications were integrated into the Informa Markets Division. In 1953, Prairie Farmer teamed with WLS Radio in Chicago to host
168-600: The Canadian company Hobby Star Marketing, who ran the Fan Expo Canada and Toronto Comicon comic book conventions . Informa has since acquired other conventions and placed them under the auspices of their Fan Expo HQ brand, including Dallas Comic Con and MegaCon . In December 2013, Informa acquired the assets of Elsevier Business Intelligence (EBI) from Reed Elsevier . The EBI business unit includes such publications as The Pink Sheet, The Gray Sheet, IN VIVO, Start-Up, and
189-512: The Decatur Convention & Visitors Bureau estimates attendance of at least 150,000 for the three days of the 2007 show. Prairie Farmer Prairie Farmer is a weekly newspaper which covers agricultural and rural news in the state of Illinois . It was first published in 1841 in Chicago, Illinois by John Stephen Wright and was called The Union Agriculturist and Western Prairie Farmer . Its original masthead proclaimed that it
210-544: The Informa board rejected the 630p per share offer as too low. In early 2007, chairman Richard Hooper announced his retirement in May and, after consulting with major shareholders, the company moved chief executive Peter Rigby to chairman, and managing director David Gilbertson to Rigby's former post. Informa explained Rigby's move by the need to maintain management stability, although it generated some controversy because it did not follow
231-537: The Strategic Transactions database along with a series of notable conferences. The EBI assets combined with Scrip, Datamonitor and several other publications formed the newly created Pharma Intelligence division of Informa Business Information. In January 2014, Carter became CEO of Informa plc. In September 2017, Informa announced that it would be acquiring Dove Medical Press. In January 2018, Informa announced its intent to acquire UBM plc . The transaction
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#1733084939067252-521: The advice of the UK's Combined Code on Corporate Governance . On 8 June 2008, The Sunday Telegraph revealed that United Business Media (UBM) had proposed a merger with Informa to create a media group worth over £3 billion. The talks were confirmed by Informa in a press release that same day, but described as "preliminary". Previously on 13 May The Times had reported that the Carlyle Group and Apax Partners were considering bidding for
273-714: The company. On 17 June talks with UBM ended because of the rapid rise in Informa's stock price after the public disclosure of the potential merger. On 26 June a private equity consortium consisting of Providence Equity Partners , the Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman proposed a takeover bid offering 506 pence per share. In May 2009 the company announced that it would restructure its business to be incorporated in Jersey but tax resident in Switzerland. The discontinued domain Informaworld provided subscribers with more than half
294-716: The former UBM Automotive, to Endeavor Business Media. In February 2020, Informa launched Omdia by consolidating its portfolio of market analyst companies, Ovum Ltd , Heavy Reading, Tractica, and the majority of IHS Markit 's technology, media and telecommunications research business, into a unified brand. The combined research offering includes more than 400 analysts and consultants covering 150 technology markets. Collectively, Omdia issues over 3,000 research reports annually. In February 2022, Informa sold its Informa Pharma Intelligence unit to investment fund, Warburg Pincus for $ 2.6 billion. It also sold Lloyd's List and EPFR to Montagu Private Equity in 2022. In March 2023, in
315-576: The large crowds and exhibits. In 2005, a permanent biennial exhibit site was constructed near Decatur, Illinois which hosted its inaugural show in 2005. For the 2007 show, the site was expanded and upgraded with asphalt paved streets. This is one of two permanent biennial sites constructed to host the show. Boone, Iowa , was selected for the show's second permanent biennial site. In 2008 the site hosted its first show at its newly constructed permanent biennial facility. The show now alternates between these two permanent sites on an annual basis. The Boone site
336-468: The matter that is to make this paper interesting and valuable. No editorial skill can make it what the West demands; but if every practical farmer only feels an interest in the cause . . . . we may expect certain success. What we wish is this -- as soon as anyone obtains valuable agricultural information, a recipe a plan or any other matter....that he would sit down and communicate it immediately. In January 1843,
357-982: The name of the paper was shortened to Prairie Farmer by Wright. This article about an Illinois newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Informa Informa plc is a British publishing , business intelligence , and exhibitions group based in London , England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . It has offices in 43 countries and around 11,000 employees. Informa owns numerous brands including CRC Press , Fan Expo , Game Developers Conference , Routledge , Taylor & Francis , and VidCon . Informa acquired UBM in June 2018 as part of its strategy to expand in North America and Asia. Informa itself
378-515: The vast changes in Iowa agriculture as well as provide information to help farmers trim costs and boost profits. Three generations of the Wallace family, Henry Cantwell Wallace , Henry A. Wallace , and Henry Browne Wallace, owned and operated Wallaces' Farmer , which was then a newspaper. The Farm Progress affiliate Prairie Farmer purchased radio station WLS from Sears in 1928 and operated it primarily as
399-402: Was completed in June 2018. In 2019, Informa sold the former UBM Life Sciences to MJH Associates. Later in 2019, Informa traded it Agriculture Intelligence unit to IHS Markit in exchange for most of IHS Markit's Technology, Media and Telecoms division. Also in 2019, Informa sold the former Penton design & engineering, manufacturing, energy, buildings, and commercial vehicle divisions, and
420-418: Was created in 1998 by the merger of IBC Group plc and LLP Group plc. Since then Informa has expanded considerably, including a 2004 merger with the publishing company Taylor & Francis and a 2005 acquisition of IIR Holdings, a human capital development company, for £768 million. In October 2006, the company was approached by Springer Science and Business Media in a takeover bid, but in early November
441-457: Was devoted to "western agriculture, mechanics, and education." Prairie Farmer is owned by Farm Progress , a subsidiary of British publisher Informa . During his time as editor, Wright set up Prairie Farmer Warehouse at 112 Lake Street in Chicago where farmers could study samples of seed, plants, and farm machinery, as well as exhibit their own products. Upon its formation, Wright (not a farmer himself) proclaimed: Upon you we must rely for
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