Ontario farmers have often been compared to a squabbling family, joined together by a common link (food production) but never totally supportive of each other. But the newly re-elected president of the province’s largest...
Read MoreIt’s pretty clear we’re headed toward a world of more livestock, not less. Trends show that as nations develop, their appetite for animal protein increases. And there’s no question developing nations have a growing middle...
Read MoreIf farmers can make it through the rest of 2010 and early 2011, they’ll see sunnier days, says a TD Bank executive. I interviewed Derek Burleton, vice president and deputy chief economist of the TD Bank Financial...
Read MoreAustralian researchers have found hard copy agricultural newsletters are still very popular with farmers — 77 per cent said they preferred to receive the printed version of a newsletter called Agricultural Memo, rather...
Read MoreBed bugs have risen to the top of the public health agenda, and they’re providing opportunities for molecular biologists such as Prof. Kurt Saltzmann of Purdue University to use their background in agricultural pest...
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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.