The Mercury is full of GMOs
My Urban Cowboy column usually appears on the online opinion pages of the Guelph Mercury. It’s not there this week, though, but it’s in today’s print version, where it’s faithfully appeared for 20 years,...
Read MoreAuthor: Owen Roberts
Nothing says local like Canadian whisky
I’m going to start buying a local food product from my daughter Alicia Huston and son-in-law Mark (pictured below) next year, in a 750-ml bottle that says Canadian Club. For the past five years, the Huston family farm near...
Read MoreThree steps to better blogging
I was pleased to be asked by my communications colleague Cort Egan in the University of Guelph library to be a presenter last week at a two-day writing workshop. The event, which was well organized by the library’s...
Read MoreScience beat precaution in anti-biotech bill defeat
Critics of science argue it alone is inadequate for making public policy. Evidence-based findings, they say, must be measured against the peoples’ pulse. Only with the public’s blessing can science be considered a...
Read More“White” robin flocks to University of Guelph Arboretum
I’m not much of a birder, but even I could appreciate why everyone was excited when the University of Guelph Arboretum hosted a partial albino robin there a few weeks ago. Check out the gorgeous photo (below) by Karl...
Read MoreOWEN ROBERTS
Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.