Some great news to start off the week: I have just learned that I am one of the winners of the IFAJ-Alltech Young Leaders Award this year!
This means I’ll be attending the 2010 International Federation of Agricultural Journalists congress in Belgium this spring as one of ten young leaders from around the world. The award [...]

Here’s a great blog post about modern agriculture and bridging the gap between farmers and consumers.
It’s written by Australian journalist Pip Courtney of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the Aussie equivalent of the CBC here in Canada), whom I had the opportunity to meet while attending the International Federation of Agriculture Journalists (IFAJ) congress in [...]

Canada is a land built on the foundations of agriculture and the hard work of generations of immigrants and farmers. These are the people who came to what was the “New World” to lay the groundwork for the life, culture and society we enjoy here today. Around the globe today, our country is admired as [...]

It’s time to hit the road for another International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) congress. This year takes us to Fort Worth, Texas where the US hosts are set to welcome more than 700 delegates from up to 30 different countries.
We’ll be immersed in the cowboy spirit during our stay in Fort Worth, learning about [...]

It’s still three years away – but excitement is building across the country for our chance to welcome the world’s agricultural journalists. Planning has started in earnest for the International Federation of Agriculture Journalists’ (IFAJ) congress that will be hosted by Canada in the Guelph and Niagara regions of Ontario in September 2011.

Spending a lot of time in airports and on airplanes gives you plenty of time to think about random things. And right now I’m wondering about the rationale behind corporations who re-name themselves with these non-descript names or acronyms that don’t actually mean anything to anyone hearing them.

Earth, nutrients and water are the fundamentals of growing food. But today I had the chance to experience these fundamentals from an entirely different perspective – a mud bath and healing waters in a Slovak health spa.