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  • From: Jwlehman@aol.com
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org, nutgrowers@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Annual NNGA meeting subjects and speakers
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:54:14 EDT

Hello all,

FYI, the tentative subjects and presenters for this years Northern Nut Growers Annual Meeting. July 23 thru 26, Macomb, IL. The complete meeting program and registration details will shortly be available at WWW.nutgrowing.org.

Dreaming of Future Nut Growing,   Gary Fernald

Persian (English) Walnut,      Louis Davie

The process for patenting, trade marking, promoting, and propagating a new plant
Earl Cully

Pawpaws,  Neal Peterson

Propagation & Breeding of Blight Resistant Butternut, Jim McKenna, Purdue University   

Ginko  Nuts, Oriana Kruszewski,

Sherlock Green.  Why Did My Plant Die?  Tom Green, WIU

Intrigue, Mysteries, and the Passions of Nut Growing!, Bill Totten

GPS: Tomorrow's Tools Today,  Jeff Hudgens

GPS workshop, Mapping and Locating,  Jeff Hudgens

Auction: Sandburg Theater

Organic Chestnut Growing,  John Wittrig

Rooted in the Nursery (Containers),  Connor Shaw, Possibility Place Nursery

Elkhart, Iowa Nut Grower,  Ward Mally

Are irradiated American chestnuts trees a source of Chestnut blight resistance?
Dennis W. Fulbright

Cultivar Inventory, Don Cullman

The Value of a Tree, Tom Green, WIU

Hazelnuts Breeder, Verne Luvall, Nut grower, Galesburg, Illinois

Establishing a chestnut industry in Michigan: from nursery production to product development.  Bill Nash, Nash Nurseries

Hybrid Oaks, Systematics and Hybridization, Guy Sternberg, Starhill Forest Arboretum

Illinois Buffer Zone Partnerships & Trees Forever,  Shannon Ramsay

Northern Pecan - Observations and Uncertainties, Wes Rice

Preserving Genetic Diversity, To be announced

Forestry Management, Corps of Engineers

The state of hazelnuts in the eastern United States, Thomas J. Molnar, Rutgers

Grafting and Propagation workshop

Banquet: Entertainment,  Speaker: Hunting the Oaks of the World
Guy Sternberg, Starhill Forest Arboretum

Lumber markets in Illinois,  Steve Felt, Illinois District Forester

Wednesday, 26 July 2006

Buss boarding for Main Tour, Nauvoo, Dallas city Chestnuts,
Luvall's nut orchard & Hazelnut Breeding site,
Totten's Nursery & Green House

A more complete program booklet including speaker addresses and biographies will be available at the meeting registration desk.  Speakers, topics, and time slots listed above are subject to change.







  • [NAFEX] Annual NNGA meeting subjects and speakers, Jwlehman, 06/09/2006

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