Gayla Bonham-Carter and Scott Bade, of Footflats Farm, win the Ontario Sheep Farmers’ 2025 DLF Ontario Pasture Award for their pasture management and strategies to maximize production per acre.
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Footflats Farm recognized with Ontario Sheep Farmers’ DLF Pasture Award
Low input, genetics and pasture management are a winning combination
Sheep producers weigh mobile fencing options at Ontario Sheep Field Day
Rappa’s ATV four-strand system and Gallagher’s SmartFence offer faster setup, labour savings, and flexibility for grazing management.
At the Ontario Sheep Field Day, farmers compared Rappa’s ATV fencing system and Gallagher’s SmartFence. Both aim to cut labour, speed up grazing moves, and expand access to pasture while working with solar energizers.
Track, Treat and Trace: iLivestock software comes to Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show
Smart farm tool targets small and mid-sized producers
Discover how iLivestock’s all-in-one farm management software — offered through Weber Farm Services — is helping Canadian cattle and sheep producers digitally manage breeding, treatment, weighing and traceability at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show.
Smart deworming starts with individualized fecal egg counts
Ontario Sheep Farmers’ hands-on workshop equips producers with fecal egg count skills to manage resistance, reduce costs, and improve flock health
Ontario Sheep Farmers’ hands-on workshop equips producers with fecal egg count skills to manage sheep parasite load, minimize potential resistance, reduce costs, and improve flock health
Outstanding young farmer winners offer ewe-nique perspective on sheep industry
Romy and Ryan Schill have turned their passion for sheep farming into two thriving businesses
In an era when many young people choose to move away from the farm to pursue other career opportunities, Romy and Ryan Schill chose to embrace farming. The duo purchased their 100-acre Wallenstein-area farm 17 years ago and have since grown their small sheep operation into a large-scale meat, breed stock, and wool-producing operation.
Ryan and Romy Schill named Ontario’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2025
Ontario’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2025 are Ryan and Romy Schill of Circle R Livestock Ltd. / Revolution Wool Company located at Wallenstein, Ont.
GenOvis awards shine a light on top Ontario sheep producers
Ontario Sheep Farmers annual gala shone a light on the top GenOvis producers in five categories presenting recognition awards to the winners in Cambridge, Ont., Oct. 25, 2024.
Deciding between annual or accelerated lambing
Individual needs will dictate which management system will be successful for an individual operation
When it comes to which breeding system a sheep producer chooses, it’s individual to a particular operation, according to panelists at the recent Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week Sheep Day. “It is a complex decision; there is a lot of moving parts. A lot of things that are different for each farm and each individual,” said […] Read more
StatsCan sees higher cattle, hog inventories at July 1
Full impacts of West's drought not yet counted
Nationwide head counts of livestock from the “early stages” of Western Canada’s ongoing drought won’t yet show the weather’s full impact, but showed slightly larger herds heading into this summer compared to last year. Statistics Canada on Monday reported the first year-over-year increase in the size of the country’s cattle herd as of July 1 […] Read more
Canada’s year-end cattle herd continues shrinking
Slaughter beat pre-pandemic pace in second half, StatsCan says
Year-over-year contraction continued for Canada’s cattle herd at the start of 2021, while newborn piglet counts kept Canada’s hog herd on the rise during the same period, according to Statistics Canada. StatsCan on Monday reported 11.2 million cattle on Canadian farms at Jan, 1, 2021 — down one per cent from the year-earlier date and […] Read more