Ottawa got caught speeding last week. And wow, talk about being mad at the cop who blew the whistle. Last Wednesday, Ottawa was nabbed for trying to get rid of the Canadian Wheat Board too fast for the law. It doesn’t like the...
Read MoreMany people are aghast at the prospect of horses being slaughtered for meat, a practice which made headlines last week when the U.S. moved to reinstate it after several dormant years. Many Americans, and Canadians, had no idea...
Read MoreCrisp copy is the focus of an Eastern Canada Farm Writers’ Association professional development seminar, tomorrow afternoon at Syngenta’s headquarters in Guelph. Top marks to Syngenta internal communications...
Read MoreGet ready, Queen’s Park. You’ll soon be seeing a great deal more of new Ontario Federation of Agriculture president Mark Wales and his trademark Birkenstock sandals, weather be damned. The colourful and well-spoken Wales, an...
Read MoreIt’s a red-letter day for Kitchener-based Hendrix Genetics and Hybrid Turkeys, having one of their fold — a turkey named Liberty, which they describe as a second-generation Canadian (because its genetics originated...
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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.