Federal agriculture critic Wayne Easter, who dropped into Guelph last week, became a household name across Canada in September as the butt of a tasteless joke about listeriosis by federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz.To...
Read MoreFarmers fancy calling themselves the original and ultimate environmentalists, and for good reason. If they aren't careful with the land, water and air around them, they have big problems.For example, without sound soil...
Read MoreIf you wonder where agricultural education, research and service is headed in Ontario, meet Rob Gordon.Gordon is the new Ontario Agricultural College dean. He arrived this summer from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College where...
Read MoreOntario Farmer editor John Greig gets invited to a lot of meetings — or at least he did, until recently. Now, he says some farm groups are getting secretive and not communicating with the media. He outlined the ills that...
Read MoreMy opinion piece about how cheap food erodes the entire food system was published recently in the Toronto Star. If you link to it, you'll notice it generated some discussion. If you're interested in keeping the topic...
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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.