New campaign supports agriculture’s next leaders
So many of the things that we depend on in life come from agriculture, or are heavily influenced by it – food, the environment, health and nutrition, among...
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World’s biggest crop getting biotech treatment
Picture a crop under increasingly intense pressure. Climate change is making yields unpredictable. Water scarcity is making it shrivel. Low prices are keeping its farmers poor. And diversification is making many producers lose...
Read MoreOnline news offers potential for communicating about agriculture
The Internet keeps slowly chipping away at the uptake of daily newspapers' print editions, the staple of the news business for decades. In early November, an organization called the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a group...
Read MoreBig issues erupt quickly in farm sector
You can buy all the local food you can possibly eat, but unfortunately, it won’t cure some of the farm sector’s cyclical or opportunist ills, such as the way it’s being battered now by huge market forces. ...
Read MoreKiss a spaghetti farmer today
Heard of World Pasta Day? I hadn’t, or at least I hadn’t remembered hearing about it, until I received what is destined to become an award-winning...
Read MoreOWEN ROBERTS
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.