Celebrating Canada’s 150 birthday by beating a tough plant disease
Winter wheat’s complex genome is a challenge to researchers. But thanks to evolving...
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Author: Owen Roberts
Livestock disease winging its way north as climate warms
Urban areas encroachment on wildlife and farms means wild and domestic species are getting closer...
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New technology to reduce antimicrobial use in pigs
Antibiotic use in agriculture is necessary, sometimes “ but as in human medicine, it’s overused,...
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Swiss food security vote: because you can’t live on chocolate alone
In Switzerland, referendums are commonplace, and one of the most recent ones – a...
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Canadian chicken farmers are rethinking antibiotics
Farmers discovered ages ago that chickens given a small preventative dose of antibiotics grow...
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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.