Partridge thought the guide should be a militant paper, but did not have support for this view from the co-founders.
He resigned after the first issue.

Roderick McKenzie was editor until 1911.

In 1909 the guide was made a weekly, and George Fisher Chipman was appointed associate editor.

Chipman edited the guide from 1911 until 1928, and its successor The Country Guide until 1935.

Partridge and Thomas Crerar of Manitoba attended the January 1909 convention where the Alberta Farmers' Association merged with the Canadian Society of Equity to form the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA).
Before the merger the AFA's official organ was the Homestead, and the CSE published The Great West.

At the urging of Partridge and Crerar these papers were absorbed by The Grain Growers' Guide.

By 1909 the guide was the official organ of the (MGGA) and its sister associations, the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association (SGGA) and the UFA.

In 1917 the GGGC merged with the Alberta Farmers' Co-operative Elevator Company, founded in 1913, to form the United Grain Growers (UGG), which provided grain marketing, handling and supply until 2001.

By 1918 the guide was the largest farm publication on the prairies by circulation.

The guide was issued as the Country Guide from volume 21, number 7 (2 April 1928) to volume 29, number 5 (May 1936).

In 1936 the paper was merged with The Nor'west farmer to form The country guide and Nor-west farmer.
Partridge thought the guide should be a militant paper, but did not have support for this view from the co-founders. He resigned after the first issue.
Roderick McKenzie was editor until 1911.
In 1909 the guide was made a weekly, and George Fisher Chipman was appointed associate editor.
Chipman edited the guide from 1911 until 1928, and its successor The Country Guide until 1935.
Partridge and Thomas Crerar of Manitoba attended the January 1909 convention where the Alberta Farmers' Association merged with the Canadian Society of Equity to form the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA). Before the merger the AFA's official organ was the Homestead, and the CSE published The Great West.
At the urging of Partridge and Crerar these papers were absorbed by The Grain Growers' Guide.
By 1909 the guide was the official organ of the (MGGA) and its sister associations, the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association (SGGA) and the UFA.
In 1917 the GGGC merged with the Alberta Farmers' Co-operative Elevator Company, founded in 1913, to form the United Grain Growers (UGG), which provided grain marketing, handling and supply until 2001.
By 1918 the guide was the largest farm publication on the prairies by circulation.
The guide was issued as the Country Guide from volume 21, number 7 (2 April 1928) to volume 29, number 5 (May 1936).
In 1936 the paper was merged with The Nor'west farmer to form The country guide and Nor-west farmer.
The Grain Growers' Guide