Farmer's Weekly - poor IT support, narrow scope and uninformative.
Farmer's Weekly is keenly read by many in the industry. The magazine contains substantial content, although much of it is opinion and anectode. There is a notable lack of scientific scrutiny in articles that permit the authors to whinge about their inability to cope with losing certain pesticides and fertilisers but rarely any mention about the numerous scientific studies showing why these chemicals are harmful and why farming needs to move away from reliance on them. How are farmers supposed to understand why chemicals are being withdrawn if they are not being exposed to the body of science proving the potential harm they have to human health and the environment? There are many other aspects of farming, human health, and the environment that are simply never covered. The less informed may see this as a useful publication but that is because they never venture outside of their comfort zone and have no idea what is not being covered.
This is far from a progressive publication and while there is the occasional piece that is moderately challenging to orthodox farming practice it is mostly a circle jerk of agribusiness insiders aimed at procuring income from advertising revenue with notable placement of adverts near 'interest' pieces that subtly promote the products being advertised on the opposite page.
There is also online access, but if you need IT support forget it, they are unresponsive and whimsical. As with most IT support now they expect the customer to work for free doing testing and providing evidence before even bothering to look into anything. No doubt the guy in charge of the IT contract will be making plenty out of the deal, much of it subsidised by the free labour of customers.
Customer service is appalling. I have waited a month for a simple log in issue to be resolved and have not had one proactive response to date. Subscription cancelled.