Modern Farmer Loses Edit Staff, but the Magazine Might Survive

Rift between owner and founder led to walkout

It's been less than a year since Modern Farmer, the Hudson, N.Y.-based magazine covering agriculture for a largely urban audience, won its first National Magazine Award for Best Magazine Section.

Unfortunately, that award could also be its last, with the publication's edit staff pulling a New Republic-style walkout in the wake of a clash between the magazine's owner and its (now former) editor in chief. 

According to a report in the New York Times this afternoon, Modern Farmer "became a magazine without an editorial staff on Friday, when its remaining paid editors walked out its doors.

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