Better Farming magazine field editor wins two major farm writing awards

A London, Ontario journalist who is a field editor for the magazine Better Farming, has won two prestigious awards from this year’s Canadian Farm Writers’ and Broadcasters’ awards competition.Mary Baxter was awarded the Jack Cram gold award for monthly press reporting and the Dick Beamish silver award for press feature. The awards were announced at the federation's annual conference, held this

Magazines we like: Small Farm Canada

The farm press generally has shrunk to a shadow of what it was even 40 years ago, reflective of the decline of the number of farms and the number of people who live off the land. Where, a generation ago, the majority of people lived on farms or made a living that was somehow connected to agriculture, now the majority of people are urban and live in three large agglomerations: greater Toronto,

Common Ground carries column by dismissed writer

Common Ground, a Vancouver-based health and wellness magazine carries an article by a woman who it says was fired as a freelance monthly columnist for the Western Producer. for attending a rally in support of the Canadian Wheat Board.Further, an accompanying editor's note connects some dots between the agribusiness firms most likely to benefit from the demise or neutering of the Wheat Board and