Farmers use it to plan their crop planting, brides use it to figure out the best date for a wedding, but most of us in the Upper Midwest use "The Old Farmer's Almanac" to find out what the upcoming winter has in store for us. The 1999 edition of the Almanac just hit the newsstands and bookstores. You may have already noticed it mixed in with stacks of other similar looking yellow paperback books, some named just "Farmer's Almanac" and others bearing more futuristic titles such as "The New Millenium Almanac." Executive Director of "The Old Farmer's Almanac", Tim Clark says the competition is as much of a tradition, as the almanac itself.