The International Federation of Agricultural Journalists is holding its annual congress in Guelph and Niagara Falls in September, 2011. The congress — which hasn’t taken place in Canada since 1967 — has a new...
Read MoreThanks to farms.com interactive media editor Andrew Campbell for alerting me and the student video crew at SPARK to the YouTube Reporters’ Center. Anyone involved in journalism and communications inside or outside of...
Read MoreI was fortunate to be part of a group from the University of Guelph who last week heard outgoing Minister of Research and Innovation Hon. John Wilkinson describe his vision for a research infrastructure designed to get...
Read MoreIn this week’s Urban Cowboy column, I’m tying together a new OECD report on the potential for biotechnology with a movement in Canada to unite agricultural policy and health policy. Canada has a unique opportunity...
Read MoreIf you’re a member of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists, your exercise in agricultural citizen journalism can now be listed under the new “blogs” section of the IFAJ website. Just send...
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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.