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  • From: "Ed Fackler" <efackler@woh.rr.com>
  • To: "NAFEX Greetings:" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] MAIA's Annual Meeting - Admission Free - All Invited
  • Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 04:38:19 -0400

Midwest Apple Improvement Association
Making good apples GREAT!

2004 Annual Meeting

Location:
Dawes Arboretum (www.dawesarb.org)
7770 Jacksontown RD
Newark, OH (Exit 132 off I-70 east of Columbus)

Date:
Saturday, November 13, 2004—8am – 4:30 pm

Local Motels:

Courtyard by Marriott
500 Highland Blvd.
Newark, OH
Ph. 800-321-2211

Ramada Inn
733 Hebron Rd.
Heath, OH 43056
Ph. 740-522-116

Agenda

 

Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004

8:00 am – 8:30 am Registration
8:30 am – 8:45 am Opening Remarks
Pres. Jim Eckert, Eckert Orchards
8:45 am – 9:15 am Seventy Five Years of Dawes Arboretum
Luke Messinger, Director of Dawes
9:15 am – 10:00 am The Apple of My Eye—Breeding Objectives of NJAES Apple Breeding Program
Dr. Joe Goffreda, Rutgers University
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 11:15 am Redefinition of MAIA Breeding Objectives; Early and Severe Screening.
Mitch Lynd, Lynd Fruit Farm
11:15 am – 11:45 am Sampling Apples from MAIA Seedlings.
Tour Kazakh Seedling Orchard (weather permitting).
11:45 am – 1:00 pm Lunch (catered)
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Choosing the Best Parents—Look to the Inner Core
Dr. Joe Goffreda, Rutgers University
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Caravaggio's Fruits—A Mirror on Baroque Pomology
Dr. Jules Janick, Purdue University
2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm Closing Remarks—MAIA and the Future?
Pres. Jim Eckert

Bring any new fruit that you have for evaluation.

THANKS for your interest in the FUTURE OF Midwest Apple Production!



  • [NAFEX] MAIA's Annual Meeting - Admission Free - All Invited, Ed Fackler, 10/20/2004

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