Animal agriculture is changing in Ontario’s Greenbelt, which was established to preserve farming. In my Urban Cowboy column in today’s Guelph Mercury, I discuss a new study by rural policy and planning Prof. Harry...
Read MoreEditor Claire Cowan at the Ontario Grain Farmer magazine rolled the dice with this month’s cover, and picked a winner…no sooner did her magazine hit the streets than it started snowing all over Ontario (and elsewhere...
Read MoreJunk food is a term that doesn’t exist in Prof. Rickey Yada’s vocabulary. But unhealthy diet does. So does single-serving portions. And baked, not fried. Yada, scientific director at the Advanced Foods and Materials...
Read MoreThe second cohort of the University of Guelph’s agricultural communications diploma program graduated Friday, following a field trip to Toronto to drop in on Hill and Knowlton, and then to CBC. Thanks to Sarah Andrewes...
Read MoreDr. George Atkins passed away last month at the age of 92, and leaves an incredible legacy with Farm Radio International (formerly the Developing Countries Farm Radio Network). The network helps social- and agronomic farm radio...
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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.