It’s the nature of news”what’s hot today usually disappears tomorrow. Such was the case a year or so ago with the Canadian Field Crop Research Alliance, a coming together of field crop research interests in Manitoba,...
Read MoreAs the global population grows and questions arise about farmers’ ability to feed everyone, questions are also arising about their moral obligation to do so ” particularly in light of new possibilities that are emerging for...
Read MoreNot long ago, farmers considered it a waste of money to try getting celebrities interested in agriculture. Even though the famous (and the not-so-famous) should have cared about farming, for the most part they didn’t, because...
Read MoreI’m going to start buying a local food product from my daughter Alicia Huston and son-in-law Mark (pictured below) next year, in a 750-ml bottle that says Canadian Club. For the past five years, the Huston family farm near...
Read MoreIt was my pleasure this morning to welcome students and sponsors of the 2010 CanACT-Oklahoma State University agricultural communications exchange program. The CanACT members travelled to Oklahoma State during Guelph’s...
Read MoreAbout a third of all Canadian farmers virtually joined hands from coast to coast last week, and unveiled a new Guelph-based organization dedicated to lobbying for agricultural research money. It’s called Farmers for Investment...
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Owen Roberts is an agricultural journalist and communications instructor based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is a trustee on the Global Foundation for Agricultural Journalism and an associate editor (communications) for the Journal of Agromedicine. Previously, Owen was president of the International Forum for Agricultural Journalists, an agricultural communications faculty member at the University of Illinois, and research communications director at the University of Guelph. His programs and research papers have been recognized through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence and the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation.