Progressive Farmer is a magazine directed toward country life living. It was founded in 1886 by Leonidas Lafayette Polk, who was from North Carolina. Polk created the publication to bring the latest information on crop and livestock production in the Southeast. Polk died in 1892 and Clarence Poe took over at editor in 1899. In 1903 Poe and three partners purchased the publication and turned it into a magazine, rather than a newspaper. The magazine publications grew and eventually merged with Southern Farm Gazette newspaper, this merge resulted in a need for a printing facility. In 1932 Cully Cobb sold his Southern Ruralist magazine to Progressive Farmer. The magazine stretched from Southeastern and Mid-south regions by this point. By the 1960’s
