Ontario farmers have scored what might be one of their biggest public relations victories ever, yet it’s mostly gone unrecognized, even by them. I write about it in today’s Urban Cowboy column in the Guelph Mercury....
Read MoreWorld Egg Day was October 8, but the Egg Farmers of Ontario decided to celebrate it all month long. It helped that they had some superb collateral, thanks to a new awareness campaign called “Who Made Your Eggs...
Read MoreTo assess media development in your country, check out the new feature on the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists’ website by Dr. Jim Evans of the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center at the...
Read MoreFew advances in science from the University of Guelph have generated as much interest as the Enviropig, which has been genetically altered to excrete less phosphorous. You can learn about the Enviropig firsthand from Guelph...
Read MoreFood has become a municipal issue in Guelph. About 100 people turned up for a pre-election forum on food issues a few weeks ago, prompting incumbent mayor Karen Farbridge to predict it will be an agenda item for the next city...
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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.