If you're a farmer in nearby Niagara and you grow grapes for wine, things are looking up. Domestic wines now account for half of Ontario's wine consumption. According to a survey by the Grape Growers of Ontario, more...
Read MoreCanada's cheap food policy — that is, paying farmers with government subsidies for the food they grow, rather than paying its true value at the grocery store — is poised to bite us all again, this time as Ontario...
Read MoreThe emerging local food movement — that is, the trend toward purchasing locally grown food at every opportunity — is exciting. It's making strides in our area, with the various roadside homegrown farm produce...
Read MoreCanadian sheep producers are taking lamb to the street. They believe lamb is seen as too much of a fancy food that you order in restaurants, but seldom cook at home. Statistics bear them out, and so they're rethinking the...
Read MoreOne of this year's biggest stories in agriculture and health will be the way selenium, a common element in certain North American crops and foods, is being positioned as a means of moderating the ravages of AIDS. To the farm...
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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.