Bright minds from the University of Manitoba’s faculty of agriculture and food sciences
Meet two students from the University of Manitoba’s agriculture program who have passion and...
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Category: AgriSuccess
Spotlight on students at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Agriculture
Agriculture in eastern Canada has a bright future if Dalhousie graduates like Katie McCalllum and...
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Small steps toward farm succession
Shaun and Ellen Grueter of Humboldt, Saskatchewan dream of taking over the family farm. But...
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Young farmer transitions from tourism to science
Julie Milne is a fourth generation dairy farmer in Campbellford, Ontario, U of G agriculture...
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Prepare to battle herbicide resistance
Pesticide resistance is on the mind of weed control forecasters everywhere. They advise farmers to...
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Weed experts watching spring melt conditions
1 – Dog strangling vine 2 – Kochia 3 – Northern willowherb 4...
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Stormy weather impacts 2019 insect forecast
Being on top of insect pests’ emergence or arrival can be crucial for their control, says Jordan...
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Nothing sheepish about advocacy on this farm
Mark and Sandi Brock run Sheperd Creek Farms. They’ve staked out their own areas of the...
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Not struggling in silence anymore
Farmers live with little control over many of the factors affecting their livelihood. Catastrophic...
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It felt like a heart attack
Anxiety plagues us mentally, but it can also take a nasty physical toll. An anxiety attack is our...
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Take courage – talk to your teens
That’s the message one farm family wants to share, so mental health becomes a more talked-about...
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Crop swing expected for Southern Ontario
Ontario’s 2018 growing season had an erratic start, weather-wise. But what followed in August...
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Why more farmers are going digital
They say knowledge is power. So it’s not surprising producers are increasingly adopting field...
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Industry confidence seen in rising farmland values
It’s a seller’s market right now for anyone looking to divest themselves of Canadian farmland,...
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OWEN 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.