Topics were announced today for the 27th annual Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture competition, taking place Saturday, November 5, 2011 at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto. The five topics are: • Dynamic...
Read MoreMy Urban Cowboy column usually appears on the online opinion pages of the Guelph Mercury. It’s not there this week, though, but it’s in today’s print version, where it’s faithfully appeared for 20 years,...
Read MoreI’m going to start buying a local food product from my daughter Alicia Huston and son-in-law Mark (pictured below) next year, in a 750-ml bottle that says Canadian Club. For the past five years, the Huston family farm near...
Read MoreI was pleased to be asked by my communications colleague Cort Egan in the University of Guelph library to be a presenter last week at a two-day writing workshop. The event, which was well organized by the library’s...
Read MoreCritics of science argue it alone is inadequate for making public policy. Evidence-based findings, they say, must be measured against the peoples’ pulse. Only with the public’s blessing can science be considered a...
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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.