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  • From: Ed Fackler <ed.fackler@gmail.com>
  • To: "NAFEX Greetings:" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Midwest Apple Improvement Winter 09/10 Annual Meeting
  • Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 05:10:08 -0500

Midwest Apple Improvement Association

Making Good Apples Great!

2010 Annual Meeting

Date: Monday January 4, 2010

Meeting Location:                                                           Conference Motel: 

Kentury Fruit/Vegetable Conference                                Embassy Suites Hotel

1801 Newtown Pike                                                          1801 Newtown Pike                                                   

Lexington, KY 40511                                                        Lexington, KY 40511

                                                                                           Ph. 858-455-5000

                                                                                           Or 1-800-EMBASSY

Directions to motel.  Take Exit 115 off I-64/75 and go west on Newtown Pike.  The Embassy is the right just after you exit the interstate.

We have a rate of $109.00 per night that includes an Evening Managers reception with drinks and a full cooked-to-order breakfast daily.  When making reservations mention that it is for the Kentucky Fruit and Vegetable Conference.                                                                           

Registration - $30.00 per person payable to Kentucky Fruit & Vegetable Conference and mail by      December 20, 2009 to:

Mary Ann Kelley

UK Research Center

PO Box 469

Princeton, KY 42445                     

Sunday January 3, 2010

 

    6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – MAIA Directors Meeting (Motel Lobby)

    7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Roundtable Growers Discussion

Monday January 4, 2010

     8:30 am – 12 noon – Kentucky Horticulture Program

     1:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Joint UK Fruit/MAIA session.       

MAIA Speakers include:

  1. MAIA Update and Future – Mitch Lynd of Lynd Fruit Farm
  2. Managing Dwarf Apples by Benign Neglect – Dick Wander, Lynd Fruit Farm
  3. Evaluation Protocol of New Apples of IFO – Emmanuel de Lapparent, General Manager - IFO Fruit International of France
  4. MAIA Apple Evaluations – Diane Miller of Ohio State University

(Note.  There will be an opportunity to sample advanced selections of MAIA apples.)

 

      For detailed information go to http://www.kyvga.org/meetings.html to view the entire program

    

     We look forward to seeing you in early January!!

  • [NAFEX] Midwest Apple Improvement Winter 09/10 Annual Meeting, Ed Fackler, 12/04/2009

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