Needed: Free flowing ag sector employment pipeline
For some time now, we’ve been hearing about the growing need for agriculture graduates to...
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Author: Owen Roberts
Keep it brilliant, keep it simple
The world’s innovators recognize that for advanced technology to be used for its intended...
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Young leaders grow where they’re planted
It’s no easy feat to develop the leaders of tomorrow “ leadership and development programs...
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Researchers put veal calf health under the microscope
Consumer demands for more natural production approaches and pressure from all sides for reduced...
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Canada’s turn for leading-edge microbiome research
An important aspect of agriculture — the part below the soil, that no one sees — could...
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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.