If you remember the ‘City Slickers’ movies with Billy Crystal, you’ll know why I felt a bit apprehensive atop my horse ‘Legs’ as we readied to move out on a good ‘ole Montana cattle drive. Not that the kind and capable wrangler assigned to lead hadn’t done everything possible to prepare us for the ride. But it soon became evident that moving the four of us ‘dudes’ was going to be as challenging as driving the cattle. Read more …
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.
