In an effort to open up our online agricultural communications diploma program, we're retiring its three three-day residencies. It's a tough decision — the learners who have taken part in the residencies have...
Read MoreThe first president of CanACT — Canadian Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow — was Jenn Dick, one of the most enthusiastic Ontario Agricultural College Aggies you could ever expect to meet. Jenn, who was also a...
Read MoreBefore the so-called swine flu broke out, I had a call from agri-marketer Jim Eadie at PigCareers.com wanting to catch me up on new developments in his shop. We couldn't chat until this week, but in the face of global...
Read MoreHomeowners get riled up when rabbits and squirrels visit their gardens. And sure, it's frustrating, putting a lot of work into a project, only to see it devastated by uninvited wild — or sometimes domestic —...
Read MoreAgricultural communications is well represented on the new board of directors of Ontario Agri-Food Education. Lorie Jocius, John Beardsley, Oliver Haan, Lillie Ann Morris and Lisa Thompson are among the board members with...
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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.