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Heard of World Pasta Day? I hadn’t, or at least I hadn’t remembered hearing about it, until I received what is destined to become an award-winning...
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Oct 29, 2007 | Guelph Mercury
Heard of World Pasta Day? I hadn’t, or at least I hadn’t remembered hearing about it, until I received what is destined to become an award-winning...
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Oct 22, 2007 | Guelph Mercury
A new provincial government, even if it’s simply a new version of an old government, must have a certain blank-slate characteristic about it. It’s...
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Oct 15, 2007 | Guelph Mercury
Ontario's election results suggest there's agreement among farmers, and many others, that the status quo is just fine.The governing Liberals have been returned, along with the former cabinet minister for agriculture,...
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Oct 9, 2007 | Guelph Mercury
It’s a beautiful late September afternoon near Picton in glorious Prince Edward County, and I’m among more than 100 members of the Canadian Farm Writers Federation participating in regional agricultural tours, as...
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Oct 1, 2007 | Guelph Mercury
When accomplished chef and restauranteur Yasser Qahawish of Guelph finally found a reliable and fairly local white asparagus supplier, his clientele was...
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Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.