Better Farming editor wins gold and silver at Farm Writers' convention

Monday, September 19, 2011

By BETTER FARMING STAFF

Better Farming’s field editor brought home two awards from this year’s Canadian Farm Writers’ and Broadcasters’ awards competition on the weekend.

At the Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation’s awards ceremony in Niagara Falls on Saturday, Mary Baxter was announced the winner of the Dick Beamish gold award for press feature and the Jack Cram silver award for monthly press reporting.

The articles recognized were “Lyme Disease: The painful and hard-to-diagnose infection” (press feature), which appeared in the May 2011 issue of Better Farming and “The obstacle-strewn road to success in agritourism” (monthly press reporting), which appeared in the December 2010 issue.

Published 10 times a year, Better Farming is Ontario’s largest circulating farm business publication. It is owned by AgMedia Inc.

The awards honour excellence in agricultural journalism, broadcasting, communications and photography in Canada.

According to its website, the CFWF represents nearly 400 English-speaking agricultural print and broadcast journalists and communicators across Canada through five regional associations in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Eastern Canada. This year, the organization hosted the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists’ annual congress.

A full list of winners will be posted shortly on the Federation’s website, www.cfwf.ca  BF