The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is threatening more protests if farmers’ concerns continue being ignored. I write about their grievances in this week’s Urban Cowboy column in the Guelph Mercury. We continue to look to agriculture to pull us out of the recession, yet we’re not willing to give farmers what they really need — which is, a fair price for food.
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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. 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.
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