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Farmer’s Almanac is a venerable American publication that has been around since 1818. The almanac is published by the Almanac Publishing Company of Lewiston, Maine. The almanac is renowned for its weather predictions and data on astronomy. It mixes the information with trivia, humor, and a style that stresses simplicity as well as basic human values. These aspects have kept the periodical in continuous publication for almost 200 years.

The almanac touches a circulation of 4 million copies per year. including the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac. Ray Geiger served as the Farmers’ Almanac’s longest-running editor, from 1934 until shortly before his death in 1994.

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