Here's a news release from the International Federation of Agricultural Producers about the connection between farming and biodiversity. It's being issued today, the International Day for Biological Diversity. * *...
Read MoreHere's a news release from the federal government about how poorly we're faring on the international negotiation frontier re: supply managed commodities. * * *OTTAWA, Ontario, May 20, 2008 – The...
Read MoreKnowing I’d fill up for the long weekend and spit at the way we continue to get ripped off at the pumps, I pondered the logic in federal politicians’ about-face on biofuels. Not long ago, Ottawa thought biofuels were...
Read MoreI don't really understand how a grocery store can afford to sell a ham the size of a watermelon for less than $8. But that's what it was fetching last Saturday, when I was fishing through the teeming meat section of a...
Read MoreLocal food advocates — the group increasingly referred to as localvores or locavores — have a new constitution in "Anita Stewart's Canada" (Harper Collins). The beautiful 322-page tome, released 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.