Awards and Honours

AWARDS:
Bronze Award: Press Column (Frank Jacobs Award) This fall, make sure “food” is on every  politicians plate.  July 2015  2016 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers Federation

Gold Award: Press Editorial (O.R. Evans Award) Why Site C must be stopped. (VanSun) 2015 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers Federation

Gold Award: Press Column (The Frank Jacobs Award)
Deconstructing Martha   Western Dairy Farmer, Sept 2012 ,2013 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers Federation

Gold Award: Press Column (The Frank Jacobs Award)
Will the real chocolate milk please stand up?    Western Dairy Farmer, Dec 2010, 2011 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers Federation
 
Bronze Award: Press Editorial (The O.R. Evans Award)
for Canadian cheese should be made with Canadian Milk, Western Dairy Farmer, Dec  2008, 2009 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers Federation

2009 Rosemary Davis Award (BC and Alberta),
Farm Credit Canada for passion and committment to agriculture

Gold Award, Press Editorial (The O.R. Evans Award),
for Beware a Conservative Majority  Western Dairy Farmer, Sept/Oct 2007
2008 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation

Distinguished Alumni Award
Celebrating 9 Decades of Distinguished Alumni
Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia. May 23, 2008

Bronze Award, Press Column (The Frank Jacobs Award)
for Dual desk code for disaster, Western Producer, February 9, 2006
2006 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation

Silver Award, Press Editorial (The O.R. Evans Award),
or NAFTA should be invoked to open border. 
Farmers' Independent Weekly, Sept 11, 2003
2004 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation

Gold Award, Press Column (The Frank Jacobs Award)
for Losing Ground , Country Life in BC May 2003
2003 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation 

Bronze Award, Press Editorial (The O.R. Evans Award),
or Supply Management Under Fire,
Farmers' Independent Weekly, October 31, 2003
2003 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation

Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, 2002
 
B.C. Agrologist of the Year 2000
 
Queen's Commemorative Meda 1992
125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation