Almost everyone (including me, and CKCO) who wrote or broadcast about the new zoonoses and public health centre that opened yesterday at the University of Guelph led their story or column with "what timing" or...
Read MoreI'm pleased be to a member of the Canadian Agricultural Human Resources Council communications advisory committee. We spend our time trying to help develop communications strategies that will address human resource...
Read MoreIn an effort to open up our online agricultural communications diploma program, we're retiring its three three-day residencies. It's a tough decision — the learners who have taken part in the residencies have...
Read MoreThe first president of CanACT — Canadian Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow — was Jenn Dick, one of the most enthusiastic Ontario Agricultural College Aggies you could ever expect to meet. Jenn, who was also a...
Read MoreBefore the so-called swine flu broke out, I had a call from agri-marketer Jim Eadie at PigCareers.com wanting to catch me up on new developments in his shop. We couldn't chat until this week, but in the face of global...
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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.