Dangers lurk whenever grain is moved – and it’s moved everyday
Stored grain is moved from silos via transport trucks, and emptying either of them can be deadly....
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Author: Owen Roberts
Helping society understand new food production technology
Modern farming relies heavily on technologies like sensors, automation, satellite imagery and even...
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Saluting the world’s biggest employer, family farming
The UN has declared 2019 to be the start of the Decade of Family Farming, a recognition of the...
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Young farmer transitions from tourism to science
Julie Milne is a fourth generation dairy farmer in Campbellford, Ontario, U of G agriculture...
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Still room for growth in horticultural land values
Farm Credit Canada’s recently released annual report on national farmland values shows that...
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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.