I work periodically with Winnipeg journalist Glenn Cheater, editor of Canadian Farm Manager, on an opinion piece for the CBC Commentary feature which appears on the Canadian Farm Business Management Council website. The latest...
Read MoreA year ago, University of Guelph professor Alfons Weersink's phone was ringing off its cradle. People everywhere wanted him to help make sense of the sudden global food crisis, which was marked by predictions of dire...
Read MoreWhen Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel pulled the plug in Hamilton on 1,500 Stelco jobs last week, it underlined what happens when a sector is dominated by foreign ownership.If times are good, everything's transparent, united,...
Read MoreTo me, hot dogs define the point where farming and food go their separate ways.I felt this way long before last week's woeful recall of Maple Leaf hot dogs, which were rounded-up in Eastern Canada by the company for fear of...
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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.