Without healthy soil, any discussion about feeding the world abruptly stops. True, there are other ways to get food ” from rivers, lakes and oceans, for example ” but for the most part, food comes from the soil, from the earth,...
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Connecting consumers and farmers has become a new imperative. Research from the Ontario Ministry...
Read MoreAgriculture is changing, becoming increasingly diverse and environmentally conscious. These changes are reflected in two federal funding initiatives announced over the past week in disparate parts of the country (not ours),...
Read MoreTo say the horse-racing industry is up in arms about the planned removal of thousands of slot machines from race tracks is an understatement. It marks a huge change to the industry. For more than a decade, the provincial...
Read MoreAddressing hunger goes hand in hand with better food production and prosperity. People ” including farmers ” who are hungry or malnourished are less able to fight disease and infection. Farmers in underdeveloped countries need...
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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.