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  • From: Marie Kamphefner <kampy AT grm.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: The 9th National Small Farm Trade Show & Conference
  • Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:09:35 -0500


Regards to the list:

Got a notice in the mail today about this - it also is advertised in the Small Farm Today magazine. Admission is $5. a day, $8. for 2 days or $12 for 3 days. Pre-register by Sept. 30 to get those prices. They recommend you reserve hotel rooms now. There is always an MU home game when they have the conference it seems and rooms get scarce.

It is November 1, 2 and 3 at Columbia, Missouri - Boone County Fairgrounds. They have 5 short courses that cost $20. each or $80 for all five of them. Looks like a great lineup of speakers and subjects. They are Sheep and Turkeys by Joel Salatin, Small farm apple, peach and pear production plus more by Patrick Byers, Pizza farming by Darren Schmall, Farm and ranch beef co-op by Diance Endicott and Intensive vegetable and flower production for local markets by Ray Evans.

There are a bunch of seminars that are one hour long and free with admission: handspinning wool from rare breeds, produce auction, solar corridor for your corn, flowers and vegetables in cold frames by Lynn Byczynski, Controlling predators on the small farm, Diversify your farm crops, Agritourism and events, Elk, Cooperative hog marketing, Succeeding with meat goats, Homeopathic treatment of alpacas, Food circles, Using weeder geese, genetics of meat goats, free range turkeys, agroforestry, poultry.

Then, there are Farmers Forum with 20 minute talks. Planned topics: pecans, organic beef, organic popcorn, asian vegetables, chestnuts, walnuts, elderberries, bush cherries, organic lawn care, pawpaws, adding value to eggs, seed saving techniques, what's in it for kids?, grazing irrigated corn, starting with straw bales, developing Missouri's organic program, sobean wax candles, harvest connection, raising small cattle, Sand Hill Preservation Center, Controlling disease in wine grapes, turning grass hay into bird nests, organic berry production, tilling the soil of opportunity, electri fincing for pastured poultry, using cover crops in asparagus culture, mulching with pet hair, adding nutrition to poor quality hay, turning forage into quality dairy pasture, growing herbs for profit, Japanese persimmons, small farms near cities, chile pepper producers, shiitake mushrooms.

For more information call 1-800-633-2535.

Marie in Missouri





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