The photo below, provided by the Ontario Sheep Marketing Agency, tells an increasing familiar story about coyote predation on Ontario farms. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture says the situation is out of control. Several opinions about what to do have been put forward, including putting a bounty on the animals, such as the one announced earlier this month in Saskatchewan. I write about the problem in today’s Urban Cowboy column in the Guelph Mercury.
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.
