The International Federation of Agricultural Producers was led for three terms by Jack Wilkinson of Canada, and many here watched it grow and progress during his tenure. This news release describes the new...
Read MoreAs world leaders were scrambling for answers last week in Rome at a United Nations summit on the global food crisis, agribusiness leader Martin Taylor was quietly stepping to the podium before 40 farm industry leaders and media...
Read MoreWhen it comes to what's called broiler chickens, the ones that are processed into food, every day counts.In just five-ish weeks, they hatch from eggs, grow and find their way to our dinner plates. That brief time period is...
Read MoreStatistics Canada calls this annual consumption round up "Food Available For Consumption" rather than simply food consumption, because not everything produced or imported is consumed — some of it is discarded as...
Read MoreGlobal food woes are being called a crisis. Unlike other disasters, these problems didn't sneak up on us.A chronic food shortfall among the world's poorest people has existed for decades, sending 800 million people to...
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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.