I'm not celebrating the decline of motor vehicle sales. Real people in our community are hurt by statistics like those reported just last week, which showed overall sales were down in January more than 25 per cent.General...
Read MoreSuppose you were about to be placed, or thrust, into a position of being able to co-create a new food policy for Canada. What would it include?Liberal MPs Wayne Easter and Carolyn Bennett led a national electronic fact-finding...
Read MoreGrain farmers have suffered from chronic low prices for decades. So they were understandably pleased when grain-based ethanol demand started pushing up grain prices.Livestock producers, who buy the grain, weren't so happy....
Read MoreBarack Obama takes office tomorrow, and he's already said Canada will be the first foreign country he visits, at some yet to be determined date.That announcement has led to optimism about his potential interest in improving...
Read MoreOntario's looking to agriculture to help drag it out of the economic doldrums.The agri-food sector here is responsible for about 700,000 jobs, and food can hardly be looked upon as a luxury. In fact, some even call 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.