The agri-food sector spends a lot of time trying to understand what farmers think. In fact, farmers are inundated with well-intentioned survey takers, and get frustrated answering the same questions repeatedly (or even new...
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Read MoreChristina Crowley, an Ontario Agricultural College student, won the Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture senior division competition with the following speech. Congratulations, Christina! The Next Generation: Youth in...
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Read MoreAgCareers and the University of Guelph have teamed up to promote the university's open-learning, graduate-level agricultural communications diploma, the first of its kind in North America. AgCareers issued the following news...
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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.