UPI Energy has invited the media to attend its E85 launch event, to commemorate the opening of the third E85 publicly accessible fuelling facility in Canada. The other two E85 locations are also UPI Energy gas bars in...
Read MoreHere's a news release from the International Federation of Agricultural Producers about the connection between farming and biodiversity. It's being issued today, the International Day for Biological Diversity. * *...
Read MoreHere's a news release from the federal government about how poorly we're faring on the international negotiation frontier re: supply managed commodities. * * *OTTAWA, Ontario, May 20, 2008 – The...
Read MoreKnowing I’d fill up for the long weekend and spit at the way we continue to get ripped off at the pumps, I pondered the logic in federal politicians’ about-face on biofuels. Not long ago, Ottawa thought biofuels were...
Read MoreI don't really understand how a grocery store can afford to sell a ham the size of a watermelon for less than $8. But that's what it was fetching last Saturday, when I was fishing through the teeming meat section of a...
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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.