Christina Crowley, an Ontario Agricultural College student, won the Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture senior division competition with the following speech. Congratulations, Christina! The Next Generation: Youth in...
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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.