My friend Prof. Jim Evans and his team at the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center at the University of Illinois offers these suggestions in the latest edition of ACDC News: The Reynolds Center for Business...
Read MoreEveryone wants the best for their kids, which has traditionally meant trying to steer them toward reliable jobs that keep them upwardly mobile or at least stable, and able to live within their means. I’m lucky my three kids...
Read MoreThe Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture competition has announced the topics for this year’s participants: – Does supply management belong in Canadian agriculture? – A national food policy: challenges...
Read MoreAs a kid, I spent many days perched precariously on the fender of my friend Randy Burke’s John Deere tractor (his dad’s John Deere, actually), travelling from one field to the next, driving to the nearby village for a break...
Read MoreI almost never start a blog post, story, column (or speech) with a quote. I got pummeled for doing so back in the 1970s by an editor at the Windsor Star, and I’ve never forgot. But to me, this one bears our attention:...
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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.