I communicate with students and professionals with a heart and soul close to farming every day.
Some of them apply rational business logic when discussing agriculture, while others place a strong emphasis on passion and pride. Big or small, business or communal, conventional or alternative, my countryside friends frequently express that urbanites often just don’t [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Bridging the gap, high priority
Posted in Aggie times, tagged agriculture, branding, communicate, cow, farming, gap, ontarion, Owen Roberts, professionals, Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, rural, rural development, students, Toronto, university of guelph, urban, urbanite guide to countryside, wayne caldwell on October 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Agriculture Around the World: Where Does Canada Stand?
Posted in Aggie times, tagged agriculture, Canada, International, Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, food prices, agribusiness, food riots, powerty, hunger, export, high prices, biofuels on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When approaching new people and locations, it is often advised to steer away from politics and religion and other ‘controversial’ topics. This is particularly true if you are the type who enjoys sharing your view more than listening to others’ views. There is a time and place for everything.
One topic for the Canadian Young Speakers for [...]
Agricultural communication: streeters
Posted in Aggie times, tagged agricultural communication, cartoon, expert opinions, farming news, journalism, mad cow, Professor Roberts, Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, street interview, streeter, timeline communications, Toronto, Vandana Shiva, video interview on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are past the half-way point of this semester, and we are to make a ‘streeter’ video interview. What is a ‘streeter’ and why do we need to know how to make one?
This week videographers Michael Chapman and Chris Szabo of Timeline Communications will help us to develop a news-like agricultural issues video of up to [...]
More of the same, please
Posted in Aggie times, tagged Canada, conservative, farming, industrial agriculture, multifunctionality, Ontario, paradigm, politics, Professor Filson, rBST, sustainability, Univeristy of Guelph on October 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The election circus is over. No Green Shift, no working class heroes, no sustainability, only more of the same, please. A conservative outcome indeed…
Canada got what the majority of Canadians want. At least it is what the few who showed up to vote wanted, leaving the question of proportional representation to itself. That means that [...]
Vote today, listen to their communication tomorrow
Posted in Aggie times, tagged Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada 2008 election, communication, farming, Glen Filson, Growing Forward, industrial farming, Michael Whittaker, multifunctionality, Owen Roberts, vote on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Please ask yourself:
- Do you value food?
- How do you want your food produced?
- Which direction should Canadian farming practices head?
Here we go again, you may think, yet another set of confrontational, value-based philosophical questions about life and survival – and farming. I say, let the politicians fight about what is best for us; let the voters [...]
Hot Dogs are made this way, so what?
Posted in Aggie times, tagged agriculture, communication, farming, hot dogs on October 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was asked by professor Owen Roberts in class the other day to either join the urbanites or the farmers. I chose the latter group, but it was not a straight forward decision. After all, I do not really know how hot dogs are made.
Having grown up on a hobby farm in rural Norway but spent almost [...]
Environment Hamilton Takes on the Challenge
Posted in Aggie times, tagged Environment, farming, Hamilton, leadership, Ontario on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Environment Hamilton is a not-for-profit organisation aiming to protect and enhance the environment in the city of Hamilton.
The other day I sat down with Lynda Lukasik, Executive Director of Environment Hamilton, when she came to the University of Guelph. Her leadership is much needed in a city where the industrial externalities are felt on a [...]
How to Boil a Frog
Posted in Aggie times, tagged agribusiness, animal feed prices, corn, corn export, creativity, Environment, ethanol, farming, farmland prices, food prices, global hunger, how to biol a frog, image, information, petroleum, sustainability on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I came across this page on the web today, and it is simply too good to just add as another link on the right hand side. It is so interesting that I also have to show the address separate, instead of inserting a word-link:
http://www.howtoboilafrog.com/
Long live creativity!
As far as farming goes, well, here is an example [...]
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