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 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.