Leslie Carson is giving hospital food a good name. Carson, manager of food and nutrition services for Guelph’s St. Joseph’s Health Centre, was recognized last week, along with Rowe Farms, for being committed to quality local...
Read MoreYou might not consider the creation of an insurance program a historic day in your profession or trade. But consider the plight of an Ontario farmer. A single animal in western Canada gets tagged with having BSE, and the U.S....
Read MoreNot long ago, farmers considered it a waste of money to try getting celebrities interested in agriculture. Even though the famous (and the not-so-famous) should have cared about farming, for the most part they didn’t, because...
Read MoreAt a recent international food and agriculture summit sponsored by the Reuters news agency, global leaders underlined how much they’re paying attention to consumers’ perception. For example, Kerr Dow, vice-president of...
Read MoreIf you came to believe free-run or free-range housing was better for hens’ welfare than conventional cages, would you pay more for eggs laid in these housing systems? And if so, how much? University of Guelph researcher...
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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.