Livestock disease winging its way north as climate warms
Urban areas encroachment on wildlife and farms means wild and domestic species are getting closer...
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Author: Owen Roberts
New technology to reduce antimicrobial use in pigs
Antibiotic use in agriculture is necessary, sometimes “ but as in human medicine, it’s overused,...
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Swiss food security vote: because you can’t live on chocolate alone
In Switzerland, referendums are commonplace, and one of the most recent ones – a...
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Canadian chicken farmers are rethinking antibiotics
Farmers discovered ages ago that chickens given a small preventative dose of antibiotics grow...
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Checking in on the neighbourhood beef farmers
As houses and industry come in, farms go out. But some, like the century-old crop and beef...
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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.