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 ...

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 ...

Farmers are accustomed to planning ahead. They track markets, prepare fields, and anticipate changing weather. Yet when it comes to preparing for one of the most consequential events in their family’s ...

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: ...

Farmland is a limited resource, leading to a demand for more productivity from fewer acres. Silvopasture can maximize the use of marginal land and create a mutually beneficial relationship between ...

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 ...

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, ...

Karson Hennick provides mobile butchering services across southern Ontario through his business, Field to Fork Butchering, in Lambton County near Sarnia. He believes that mobile butchers can help ...

When assessing livestock management, nutrition and health protocols are often the first considerations that come to mind. Water quality is an often forgotten but critical component of raising ...

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.

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, ...

Peter Hannam devoted his life to agriculture. Born in 1939 and raised on his family’s farm in Guelph, he spent his life in Wellington County, where he built two successful businesses and played a key ...