Canadian sheep producers are taking lamb to the street. They believe lamb is seen as too much of a fancy food that you order in restaurants, but seldom cook at home. Statistics bear them out, and so they're rethinking the...
Read MoreOne of this year's biggest stories in agriculture and health will be the way selenium, a common element in certain North American crops and foods, is being positioned as a means of moderating the ravages of AIDS. To the farm...
Read MoreIf you believe Victoria Day weekend is supposed to conjure celebratory visions of our heritage, consider this: the distinction of being the most successfully launched wine ever in Ontario actually belongs to a new Ontario...
Read MoreGuelph's answer to the BlackBerry is in professor Paul Hebert's hands — or will be, eventually.Hebert, the chair of the new Biodiversity Institute of Ontario which officially opened last Wednesday at the University...
Read MoreYour local veterinarian may very well be part of a new national reserve, mustering now to help animals in distress. Since November, the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have been...
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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.