The Farmers' Almanac Is Coming To An End, Now What?

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The Farmers' Almanac announced in early November that its 2026 printed edition will be its final one. It had been printing annual editions since 1818, offering gardening tips, home remedies, folksy advice, and long-term weather predictions to an ever-changing audience for over 200 years. The final edition for 2026 was released August 8, 2025, and is available for purchase in paperback on Amazon ($9.59). The Farmers' Almanac also operates a website (farmersalmanac.com), which will remain in operation until December 2025. The editor, Sandi Duncan, told members of the media that changes in the publishing industry created an unsustainable financial situation for the publication.

What does this mean for people who love this long-standing resource? If you relied on the Farmer's Almanac to help you with everything from planning your planting arrangements to finding the best cover material to protect your plants from frost, you'll have to go elsewhere for that advice. If you like the tips found in the publication, though, you can still source them from The Old Farmer's Almanac, which announced that it will continue to offer its annual publication and provide articles on its website (almanac.com). The two publications have different owners.

If you've been using the Farmers' Almanac for predictions about how winter will affect your garden and similar weather-related topics, you may not miss out too much when it ceases printing. The almanac traditionally blended meteorology and folklore to create forecasts that are more for fun than reliability. According to the University of Illinois, these types of long-range almanac forecasts are about as accurate as predicting a coin toss. Still, true fans were always ready to offer the benefit of the doubt, anxiously anticipating its annual assortment of astronomy-based outlooks, sage gardening advice, and humorous, heartfelt insights.

The Farmers' Almanac announcement about ceasing operations created a stir on social media and the internet not only due to it being a piece of American history but also because many people were confused about which of the similarly named organizations was actually ending. The Farmers' Almanac, which will no longer print new editions, uses an orange color on the cover and is printed in Maine. But if you rely on the Old Farmer's Almanac to help you find the first frost date for your garden, you'll be glad to know your preferred publication will continue to operate. The Old Farmer's Almanac has a yellow cover with the current year printed in red numbers in the center of the cover. It's printed in New Hampshire and is considered the more well-known publication. It has also been around longer (it was initially offered in 1792), adding the word "Old" to its title in 1848 to distinguish it from its competitor.

The Old Farmer's Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. The 2026 version of The Old Farmer's Almanac was published August 26, 2025 and is available on Amazon as a paperback. Some industry analysts believe The Old Farmer's Almanac's ability to expand its digital offerings and modernize its content with interactive tools has helped it remain relevant. Following the Farmers' Almanac announcement, The Old Farmer's Almanac assured readers it will be around for many more generations, giving fans of these nostalgic publications an option even as its younger counterpart stops production.