Report on Business spent some time talking about the peach breeding process, as well as some of the challenges facing Ontario tender fruit and fruit-tree development, with Vineland‘s Dr. Jay Subramanian. Jay’s passion for his research is legendary among his colleagues and students in the University of Guelph SPARK program who’ve covered him. The photo here of Jay was taken at Vineland by photographer Martin Schwalbe.
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.
