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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps paradoxically, we can think of the plant microbiome – or the microbial community in and around the plant – as both an old and a recent field of study. Researchers have studied aspects of the ...

Most pig farms across Canada run on a continuous schedule: breeding, farrowing, processing piglets, and weaning all happen each week. Many producers find success and satisfaction in this steady rhythm ...

Across rural Ontario, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) have become popular for recreation and trail riding. But for many landowners and farmers, those same machines carry with them a growing frustration: ...

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 ...

As we know, Canada's farm population accounts for a small minority (less than 2 per cent) of the country's total population, according to 2016 Statistics Canada data. And one subset of this workforce ...

Many rural communities across Ontario have a long-standing annual tradition of gathering at their local fall fair to celebrate agriculture. While many fairs are now over a century old, their events, ...

Robotic milking systems are not new to Ontario dairy farmers, but the University of Guelph’s Dr. Trevor DeVries says that the adoption of the technology is still climbing. “In general, we are seeing ...