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 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.
