Harsh words were flying everywhere for Ontario's Greenbelt when the Eastern Canada Farm Writers Association held its annual general meeting in Vineland, and offered up a panel discussion on living in the Greenbelt. The take-home message was that neither farmers nor people who live in the nearby village of Lincoln are pleased. I summarized the discussions in my Urban Cowboy column in today's Guelph Mercury.
OWEN ROBERTS
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.