The well known quarterly magazine Hobby Farms was all set to launch two new alpaca publications.
Their parent company, BowTie, Inc., was planning to launch two new publications in 2006 dedicated to raising alpacas, and geared toward the prospective or new alpaca owner. "Alpacas USA" was to be an annual news stand publication; "Alpaca Talk" was to be a supplement to Hobby Farms and sent out with the May/June 2006 issue of Hobby Farms, which is received by approximately 50,000 subscribers.

I had been commissioned to write an 1,800 word article on purchasing alpacas. But I heard today from the editor that Bow Tie publications have cancelled the production of both publications.

Much of the research on the article is now complete so I will complete the article and load it into the Mulberry Alpacas Library sometime during December. Watch this space.......

By Adrian Stewart