Healthy soil is where good food starts. It nourishes the crops and supports livestock production for Canada’s food complement. Our capacity to produce essential goods here at home has gained a lot of attention lately, and we need healthy soil to do it. Â
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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.
