(photo by Grant Martin) Without sounding too simplistic, some would lay the economic problems we’re having at the feet of immorality. Society got too greedy — we overconsumed in many ways, and the chickens have come...
Read MoreThe definition of a fair price for food –and who determines that price — is elusive. There's fair to consumers, fair to processors and retailers, and fair to farmers. When one pushes back, the other one feels...
Read MoreI'm not celebrating the decline of motor vehicle sales. Real people in our community are hurt by statistics like those reported just last week, which showed overall sales were down in January more than 25 per cent.General...
Read MoreSuppose you were about to be placed, or thrust, into a position of being able to co-create a new food policy for Canada. What would it include?Liberal MPs Wayne Easter and Carolyn Bennett led a national electronic fact-finding...
Read MoreGrain farmers have suffered from chronic low prices for decades. So they were understandably pleased when grain-based ethanol demand started pushing up grain prices.Livestock producers, who buy the grain, weren't so happy....
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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.