Market Farming

[Marie Kamphefner <kampy AT grm.net>]

At 04:54 PM 06/02/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> Hi Marie, thank you for the response, and now where will it be held? 
> Thanks again, Tracy

It's at Columbia, Missouri.  I went a few years ago when it was just two 
days long.  They have really enlarged the show and have added a day.  I'm 
pretty sure we're going to go this year.   They have camper hookups I believe.

Here's a repeat of the original post with the information about it and a 
phone number for more information:

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