I'm not sure where all the local food proponents are holding court, but wherever you are, now's the time to come out swinging in support of local livestock farmers.They're getting hammered by surpluses, low prices...
Read MoreSo many of the things that we depend on in life come from agriculture, or are heavily influenced by it – food, the environment, health and nutrition, among...
Read MorePicture a crop under increasingly intense pressure. Climate change is making yields unpredictable. Water scarcity is making it shrivel. Low prices are keeping its farmers poor. And diversification is making many producers lose...
Read MoreThe Internet keeps slowly chipping away at the uptake of daily newspapers' print editions, the staple of the news business for decades. In early November, an organization called the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a group...
Read MoreYou can buy all the local food you can possibly eat, but unfortunately, it won’t cure some of the farm sector’s cyclical or opportunist ills, such as the way it’s being battered now by huge market forces. ...
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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.