The photo below, provided by the Ontario Sheep Marketing Agency, tells an increasing familiar story about coyote predation on Ontario farms. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture says the situation is out of control. Several opinions about what to do have been put forward, including putting a bounty on the animals, such as the one announced earlier this month in Saskatchewan. I write about the problem in today’s Urban Cowboy column in the Guelph Mercury.
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.
