Maple Leaf disaster should make us look in the mirror
I used to take my agricultural communications students to an annual pork producers’ top-performers’ recognition dinner at the Tavistock arena, to see how...
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International farm-writing award for Canadian journalist
Treena Hein has been named the winner of year's prestigious Star Prize for Agricultural Journalism, sponsored by John Deere, from the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ). The winning article, "Up...
Read MoreThe “angst” of reporting rural issues
My friend Jim Evans and I put together a feature on the challenges of reporting rural issues to urban readers, listeners and viewers. The feature is highlighted in this week's ACDC News. Here's the notation from the...
Read MoreBetter Farming reporter wins farm writers’ bursary
Mary Baxter is the winner of this year's travel bursary from the Eastern Canada Farm Writers' Association (ECFWA), which provides support for a member to attend the Canadian Farm Writers Federation annual...
Read MorePoverty escalates while free trade mess festers
Negotiators everywhere are trying to pick up the pieces after the most recent round of international trade talks, held this time in Geneva, failed again.The World Trade Organization, which is entrusted globally with trying to...
Read MoreOWEN ROBERTS
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.