Friday afternoon from the national 4-H annual conference in PEI came an announcement that Ottawa was giving $3 million-plus to the Canadian 4-H Council. That’s great news for 4-H, as well as for the Canadian Young Speakers...
Read MoreThe Ontario Federation of Agriculture is threatening more protests if farmers’ concerns continue being ignored. I write about their grievances in this week’s Urban Cowboy column in the Guelph Mercury. We continue...
Read MoreEgg farmers are trying to connect producers and consumers with this contest that ties in an important part of the value chain – that is, restaurants. Everyone has their favourite breakfast restaurant. In Guelph,...
Read MoreSeveral friends and colleagues have been fortunate to travel to China reccently on exchanges or study tours. And it’s becoming reciprocal — for the next few months, Guelph is hosting a group of professors and other...
Read MoreStories like this one from Reuters are emerging about a new thrust by pro-biotech wheat interests in the U.S., Canada and Australia. The story says the U.S. National Association of Wheat Growers has signed up grain growers in...
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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.