On Easter Sunday, my sister Wilma Caron pulled a rabbit out of her hat and turned about $1,000 cash into $8,000 worth of food — by donating the proceeds of her annual community Easter egg hunt to the Ontario Association of...
Read MoreI’m among that crowd of Canadians who feel they’re getting taken to the cleaners by Big Oil, while governments stand by and collect tax on inflated gas prices. Greed is the only reason that’s emerging after last week’s...
Read MoreMy friend Prof. Jim Evans and his team at the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center at the University of Illinois offers these suggestions in the latest edition of ACDC News: The Reynolds Center for Business...
Read MoreEveryone wants the best for their kids, which has traditionally meant trying to steer them toward reliable jobs that keep them upwardly mobile or at least stable, and able to live within their means. I’m lucky my three kids...
Read MoreThe Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture competition has announced the topics for this year’s participants: – Does supply management belong in Canadian agriculture? – A national food policy: challenges...
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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.