top agriculture
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| description | monthly agricultural magazine |
| Area of Expertise | agricultural economics |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Landwirtschaftsverlag Münster |
| First edition | 1972 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | 99,407 copies |
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| Widespread edition | 101,820 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Guido Höner, Matthias Schulze Steinmann |
| editor | Landwirtschaftsverlag GmbH, Münster |
| executive Director | Werner Gehring, Dr. Ludger Schulze Pals, Malte Schwerdtfeger |
| Web link | www.topagrar.com |
top agrar is a monthly agricultural magazine. It is published by the Landwirtschaftsverlag in Münster and reports on various key topics from agriculture. Every month, the basic booklet offers up-to-date specialist information on the main topics of management / money, taxes and insurance, production on arable land and grassland, agricultural technology and construction, new energy, market and prices, as well as household and family. The reader can also choose the special programs for cattle and / or pig farming. The circulation sold in the second quarter of 2018 was 100,806 copies, and according to the publisher it is the agricultural trade magazine with the highest circulation in the German-speaking area. In Austria and Switzerland , top agrar appears with country-specific supplements. There is also a Polish version of the magazine as well as special issues for the Eastern European and Russian markets.
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In 2007, the German trade press named top agrar the trade journal of the year in the field of craft / agriculture. In addition, the jury selected the top agrar editor Ralf Lenge (technology) as the journalist of the year for the article “Asse des Ackers” (issue 12/2006).
In 2009 the journal received the 3rd prize of the German trade press for the contribution "Agricultural research on the sidelines" by Hildegard Moritz.
In 2013 top agrar received the award from the German trade press as “Specialist Medium of the Year 2013” in the Agriculture / Food category. Matthias Schulze Steinmann, meanwhile deputy editor-in-chief of the agricultural weekly newspaper Westfalen-Lippe, received the Karl-Theodor-Vogel-Preis of the German trade press as “Specialist Journalist of the Year 2013” for the article “There is a gold rush mood” in the top-agrar edition June 2012 was published.
In 2018, Patrick Liste from the top agrar editorial team received an award from the Association of German Agricultural Journalists as part of the “Green Reportage” competition for his contribution “Retail is entering the dairy business”. The article appeared in the 9/2017 issue of top agrar and convinced the jury as the best specialist article.
Online offer
At the beginning of 2011, top-agrar-Online was relaunched . With an average of 590,800 visits and 2.2 million page views in 2011 (IVW), the website is an important source of information for agriculture. Every week top-agrar-Online sends out several newsletters, including an overview of the news at the start of the week (free), crop protection information during the growing season (subscription) and market information (subscription). The daily updated news is freely accessible, as is the forum, the online videos and the job or real estate exchange. The areas Acker + Wetter, Markt-Hotline and some service offers are reserved for subscribers.
The most important competitor is the Agrarheute Agrarmagazin from the German Agricultural Publishing House in Munich. The used machine portal tractorpool was initiated together with the sister magazine profi-Magazin für Agrartechnik .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Media data 2019. In: top agrar Mediacenter. At top-Mediacenter.com, ( PDF ; 749 KB), accessed on September 29, 2019.