What if China develops a local food policy?
For fear of sounding like an opportunist, the recent cloned meat approval in the United States and Europe that I wrote about here recently couldn’t have come at a better time. ...
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Jan 28, 2008 | Guelph Mercury
For fear of sounding like an opportunist, the recent cloned meat approval in the United States and Europe that I wrote about here recently couldn’t have come at a better time. ...
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Jan 21, 2008 | Guelph Mercury
All the talk these days in the agri-food sector, even at the farm level, is about building brands.Recently, Ontario beef producers were told at a meeting that they should be branding their beef more than they do now,...
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Jan 10, 2008 | Guelph Mercury
Everyone has their own approach to rural development and renewal, and many of them involve finding a niche, so residents there have something to do, or buy or...
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Jan 8, 2008 | General news
Cattle and pigs aren't the only animals found on Canadian farms, but Statistics Canada says some alternative species that gained ground in last couple of decades have lost favour to conventional animals. That said, the...
Read MorePosted by Owen Roberts | Jan 7, 2008 | Guelph Mercury
Farmers are starting to get people's attention. A wide-sweeping awakening is occurring among Canadians that agriculture significantly impacts the things they care about most, that is, health and the environment, as well as...
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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.