Larry Martin from the George Morris Centre authored a recent report saying tobacco farmers were getting treated unfairly through the federal tobacco transition program. I wrote about it for the AgriSuccess Express. Larry...
Read MoreIt’s fitting this would be my first photo post after University of Guelph webmaster Stuart Robertson and blog designer Kyle Maw helped me get the graphic kinks out of my blog. After all, without the long-sightedness of...
Read MoreHarsh words were flying everywhere for Ontario's Greenbelt when the Eastern Canada Farm Writers Association held its annual general meeting in Vineland, and offered up a panel discussion on living in the Greenbelt. The...
Read MoreNo one seems to mind advertising on newspaper front pages. It's usually subtle, and it's become part of our culture. But with magazines, for some reason it's a different story. Maybe it's because some magazines...
Read MoreWe're going to be using video conferencing (instead of residencies) more in our agricultural communications diploma program starting this fall, and it looks like we're not alone. Catching up on some reading this rainy...
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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.