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About the Journal of Farming
Research across the whole farming system
- Journal
- Journal of Farming (JF)
- ISSN
- 3070-2232
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub
- Publishing model
- Open access, peer reviewed
The Journal of Farming publishes peer-reviewed research across farming systems: crop production and agronomy, livestock and feed science, soils and water, farm economics, management, and sustainable practice.
It exists to give that work a scholarly home in which a field trial, a feeding study, a soil or water measurement and a farm-budget analysis are reported in full, assessed by subject-matter experts, and left open for other researchers to read, test and build on.
Why the journal exists
Farming is one system, and the evidence that serves it should be readable as one literature
A holding is not a set of separate problems. A decision about plant spacing is also a decision about water, labor and price. A change of ration is also a change in cost per unit of gain. A conservation practice changes what the soil will carry in five years as well as what the field yields this season.
The Journal of Farming is edited on that premise. It publishes across the working holding rather than inside a single specialty, so that research on crops, livestock, soils, water, economics and management can be read against each other rather than in separate places.
The journal's remit follows its name. Farming is the subject — in the field and in the shed, at the scale of a plot, a herd, a holding or a region, and including the practices that keep a system productive over time.
What the journal publishes on
- Crop production and agronomy
- Establishment, nutrition, protection, growth regulation and yield.
- Livestock and feed science
- Rations, supplementation, performance and husbandry across classes of stock.
- Soils and water
- Fertility, structure, conservation, irrigation and the water balance of a holding.
- Farm economics
- Input costs, returns, margins and the economic evaluation of a practice.
- Management and operations
- Rotation, timing, labor, machinery and the running of the enterprise.
- Sustainable practice
- Resource use, soil and water stewardship, and long-term productive capacity.
The journal's full scope statement is published in Aims and Scope.
The disciplinary role
Five relationships the journal is organized around
Each pair below names a connection that farming research has to carry and that a single-specialty journal can lose. They describe how the Journal of Farming reads and handles the work it receives.
ResearchPractice
Station and field research earns its place when an agronomist, an adviser or a farmer can see what was varied, under what conditions, and at what cost. The journal asks for the conditions of a study to be reported as carefully as its result, so that a reader can judge where it applies.
CropsLivestock
Arable and animal enterprises share ground, a labor calendar and a balance sheet. Work on either is read here in the knowledge that it lands in the same system, which is why a feeding study and a spacing trial belong in one journal rather than two.
Soil and waterWhat grows
Soil condition and water supply set the limits inside which every other decision is made. Research on fertility, structure, conservation and irrigation is treated here as central agronomy rather than as a separate environmental annex.
EconomicsManagement
A practice that works agronomically still has to be affordable and operable. Cost, margin, labor and timing are proper subjects for this journal, and a study that reports them alongside its agronomic or animal result is more useful to its readers than one that does not.
EvidenceEditorial stewardship
Editorial work is what keeps the rest usable: screening submissions for scope, sending manuscripts to independent subject-matter experts, and holding decisions to criteria that are published rather than implied.
Readers and contributors
Who the journal is written for
The journal serves the people who produce and use farming evidence: agronomists and crop scientists; animal, feed and forage scientists; soil and water researchers; agricultural economists and farm-management specialists; and the extension and advisory services that carry findings to the people working the land.
It is also written for students entering those fields, who need to see a complete method and a plain account of the conditions a result was obtained under, not only a headline finding.
Authors are welcome from any country and any institutional setting, including national and regional research stations, universities, government services and independent research groups. What a submission is judged on is its scope, its method and its reporting.
The published record
Two studies that illustrate the journal's breadth
Crop management, measured at two research stations across one season
Standardizing Use of Mepiquat Chloride for Higher Productivity of Densely Planted Bt Cotton Variety
Feed formulation, weighed against bird performance and cost
One reports crop management measured in the field, the other feed formulation weighed against bird performance and cost. Together they show the connected range of farming research the journal publishes, from the agronomy of a crop to the economics of a ration. Aims and Scope is the authoritative statement of the journal's scope and of what makes a manuscript eligible, and it is the place to confirm that a subject belongs here before submitting.
Editorial responsibility
What the journal undertakes for the work it receives
Screening and review
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
Assessment and decisions
Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
Submitting to the journal
- Primary routeManuscriptZone
- Alternative routeSimple manuscript submission form
- Assisted routeEditorial email
Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.
Journal of Farming · ISSN 3070-2232
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Editorial correspondence and questions about fit for the journal may be sent to [email protected]. Author requirements are set out in the Instructions for Authors.