Helping to improve water woes in Belize
Photo: S.H.A.R.E. I inadvertently over-watered a new — particularly fragile —...
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Author: Owen Roberts
Doc@Distance agricultural program reaches out
This is an article from the Texas Tech newspaper. Owen Roberts is doing the grinding work graduate students often do. The agricultural communications instructor daily plies away the study hours aimed at getting his doctor of...
Read MoreIncreasingly important to market ingredients
For the first time in Canadian farming, the way a farm markets its products — or “ingredients,” as local food guru Anita Stewart calls them — is more important than how it produces them. That eye-opening...
Read MoreRural prosperity depends on urban visitors
My students are helping promote a University of Guelph-led international conference about two hours north of here this summer, on boar semen technology. It’s the first time this globally minded gathering has ever come to...
Read MoreFood guide offers chance to celebrate and improve
Someone dropped the ball last week when Canada’s new food guide was unveiled. They forgot about farmers. The guide, which tells you what to eat to be healthy, was rolled out at two grocery stores, not far from Ottawa....
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.