Monthly Archives: February 2007

Doc@Distance agricultural program reaches out

This is an article from the Texas Tech newspaper. Owen Roberts is doing the grinding work graduate students often do. The agricultural communications instructor daily plies away the study hours aimed at getting his doctor of education degree in agricultural … Continue reading

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Increasingly important to market ingredients

For the first time in Canadian farming, the way a farm markets its products — or “ingredients,” as local food guru Anita Stewart calls them — is more important than how it produces them. That eye-opening comment is straight from … Continue reading

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Rural prosperity depends on urban visitors

My students are helping promote a University of Guelph-led international conference about two hours north of here this summer, on boar semen technology. It’s the first time this globally minded gathering has ever come to Canada, bringing more than 100 … Continue reading

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