The hand-wringing continues over fairness in reporting H1N1 flu, also unpopularly known as swine flu among pork producers. Jim Evans and the crew at the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center at the University of...
Read MoreI’ve been fortunate over the past several months to work on an agricultural journalism ethics research project with Dr. Jim Evans, a giant in the field, and Karen Simon, the newly-elected president of the American...
Read MoreMembers of the Canadian pork sector are asking for the public’s help in bailing out their industry — by buying local food. I write about their pleas in this week’s Urban Cowboy column in the Guelph Mercury, and...
Read MoreThe World’s Longest Barbecue takes place this weekend, and founder Anita Stewart is more determined than ever to try to get August 1 dubbed a national food holiday in Canada. It’s already a holiday here, (Civic...
Read MoreI was sorry to miss the Ontario Agricultural College 2004 class 5th anniversary reunion last weekend. But circumstances will change and I’ll look forward to those that follow. Thanks to Krista Wydeven for circulating the...
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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.