The array of farmer-driven public education initiatives appearing at high-profile events in Ontario over the past couple of weeks is impressive. I write about them in today’s Urban Cowboy column in the Guelph Mercury. One of the events is Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show, where several University of Guelph faculty from the Ontario Agricultural College (including soybean researchers Gary Ablett and Istvan Rajcan, pictured below) are making presentations. Here’s their schedule.
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.
