Kick a Dead Horse

Pam Golden, editor of Southern Farmer magazine, has 25 years experience chronicling life in the south.

She served 11 years in daily newspapers and 3 years in weekly newspapers before being released for good behavior to the blessed world of agricultural journalism.

Pam’s agricultural journalism experience started as a freelance writer for Rural Press USA, while she still worked in daily newspapers. After five years, she became editor of Georgia Farmer magazine, waded through a series of changes and mergers in agricultural publishing, and now continues to work for the same parent company, Rural Press Ltd. of Australia, as an employee of its U.S. subsidiary, Farm Progress Cos., of Chicago. Rural Press was acquired by Fairfax Media in 2007.

Pam and her son, Russ, a freshman at Northwest Florida State College, live in Crestview, Fla. As editor of Southern Farmer, Pam writes about agriculture in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Pam earned her bachelor’s degree in communication arts with an emphasis on print journalism from the University of West Florida, Pensacola. She started her studies at Livingston University, now known as the University of West Alabama.