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 Medal 1992, 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation