As world leaders were scrambling for answers last week in Rome at a United Nations summit on the global food crisis, agribusiness leader Martin Taylor was quietly stepping to the podium before 40 farm industry leaders and media...
Read MoreWhen it comes to what's called broiler chickens, the ones that are processed into food, every day counts.In just five-ish weeks, they hatch from eggs, grow and find their way to our dinner plates. That brief time period is...
Read MoreStatistics Canada calls this annual consumption round up "Food Available For Consumption" rather than simply food consumption, because not everything produced or imported is consumed — some of it is discarded as...
Read MoreGlobal food woes are being called a crisis. Unlike other disasters, these problems didn't sneak up on us.A chronic food shortfall among the world's poorest people has existed for decades, sending 800 million people to...
Read MoreUPI Energy has invited the media to attend its E85 launch event, to commemorate the opening of the third E85 publicly accessible fuelling facility in Canada. The other two E85 locations are also UPI Energy gas bars in...
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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.