Better Farming Prairies May/June 2025 edition features Joline & Ryan Bowditch on the cover and the following articles: Regenerative Agriculture - Making It Work, Managing Parasites - Healthier Herds, ...

The largest editorial agriculture magazine in Canada, Better Farming has a proud tradition of editorial excellence and is distributed to 39,000 commercial farms in Ontario, and a western version to 45 ...

In the spring, a team of researchers – including University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign scientists and industry partners – approached a professor in the university's animal sciences department to ...

Considering the costs of the latest farm equipment and technology, more and more producers are opting to hire agri-contractors for one or more field operations. Every three years, OMAFRA polls farmers ...

Western Canada is celebrated as the breadbasket of Canada, with more than 70 per cent of the country's farmland within Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. But who really owns most of this land? And ...

Herbicide-resistant weeds are becoming a common problem for Prairie farmers, limiting their options for chemical weed management and increasing the importance of non-chemical management strategies.

A London, Ontario dairy producer says luck saved the day when fire broke out at his operation on Wednesday night. “We’re extremely, extremely lucky,” says Tommy Faulkner of the fire that erupted in a ...

Winter fixing season is upon us and many farmers are heading out to their shops to repair their vehicles and equipment. The first tools mankind ever used were the rock and the stick. These are still ...

Digital tools are rapidly transforming how Western Canadian farmers monitor and manage their land, and nowhere is this more visible than in the evolution of farm-based analytics and weather monitoring ...

Soon after being named Ontario’s new Minister of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness in late March, Trevor Jones sat down with Better Farming for a discussion on his background, his political goals, ...

Modern swine production demands precision in feeding high-prolific sows to ensure both longevity and optimal performance. Over the past decade, advances in sow genetics and feeding systems have ...

For months now, producers have been grappling with a growing season marked by weather extremes and mounting economic uncertainty. With conditions shifting from a rain-soaked spring to a summer defined ...