Report on Business spent some time talking about the peach breeding process, as well as some of the challenges facing Ontario tender fruit and fruit-tree development, with Vineland’s Dr. Jay Subramanian. Jay’s...
Read MoreA few Saturdays ago (July 24, to be exact), I walked down the aisle and symbolically gave away my eldest daughter, Alicia, in marriage to a bright and ambitious young farmer named Mark. He and his family grow crops and raise...
Read MoreThanks to reporter Robert Arnason of the Western Producer for the ink re: his story “Farmers encouraged to educate media” in the newspaper’s August 19, 2010 edition. In the story, I join sources from the...
Read MoreThe United Nations says 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. The nursing profession calls 2010 the International Year of the Nurse, recognizing the centennial year of the death of modern nursing’s founder, Florence...
Read MoreThanks to Guelph Mercury reporter Greg Layson for remembering our band, the GMOs, in his story about another attempt to broaden the professional hockey menu in Canada. Last summer the GMOs wrote the theme for the Make It Seven...
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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.