Consumers, environmentalists and some others might have wanted to hear the president of Ontario’s largest general farm organization, Bette Jean Crews, say the likes of food safety or clean water were farmers’Â top...
Read MoreThe Ontario Independent Meat Processors are trying to figure out ways to head off a shortage of butchers and others with what they call “knife skills.” Butchering is a trade that still cannot be performed...
Read MoreThe New Year started with a new agricultural communications partnership between SPARK, the University of Guelph co-operative education office, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Vanessa Perkins, a third-year psychology co-op...
Read MoreAs Canadians look back on what defined our food culture for the past decade and what shapes the next one, two milestones come to mind: our lone BSE cow, back in 2003, and more lately the impact of the Governor General’s...
Read MoreI’ve seen firsthand how Canadian chicken, egg and dairy farmers, who have the luxury of a quota system and controlled pricing, can put exceptional effort into food safety, animal housing and other welfare measures....
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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.