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100th Annual NNGA Meeting
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana - July 19 - 23, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
- 10 AM - 4:00
- NNGA Board Meeting: Stewart Center, Room 204
- 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM
- Registration: Steward Center, East Foyer
- 1:00 - 5:00 PM
- Exhibit area will be open for setup. We urge nut growers, nurserymen, and other organizations to display in this area. Any exhibits pertaining to growing, processing or selling nuts, scion wood, trees, tools, nutcrackers, displays, etc., are both requested and welcome.
- 6:00 - 7:30 PM
- Welcome Barbecue and Social: Purdue Martel Forest and Wright Center.
A cash bar will be set up at the site along with music and merriment. We will be able to informally tour Purdue walnut plantings and the Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center's (HTIRC) greenhouses. Transportation to and from the site will be via car pool.- 8:00 - 10:00 PM
- Show and Tell--Jerry Lehman will once again host this popular event which will be held at the Wright Center after the barbeque. Slide and computer projectors will be available.
Persons interested in making a Show and Tell presentation should contact Jerry Lehman at 812-298-8733 to make arrangements, or see him at the BBQ.Monday, July 20, 2009
- 6:00 AM - 9:00 AM
- Breakfast on your own
- 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- NNGA Registration continues: Stewart Center
- 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
- Welcome and Keynote Address: Stewart Center
Welcome: Dr. Charles Michler, Director of the Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center
Keynote Address: Dr. Jules Janick, Nuts, Fruits, and Art- 9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
- Annual NNGA Business Meeting: Steward Center
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 PM
- Break
- 10:30 PM
- CAP Activity: Details to be announced in the program booklet.
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
- Technical Presentations: Stewart Center (See planned presentations at bottom of page.)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Lunch on your own
- 1:30 AM - 3:00 PM
- Technical Presentations: Stewart Center
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
- Break
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
- Technical Presentations, continued
- 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
- Dinner on your own
- 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
- Auction Setup: Stewart Center
- 7:00 PM - end
- Annual Auction: Stewart center. Proceeds will be used to support research.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
- 6:00 - 8:00 AM
- Breakfast on your own
- 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
- Field Trip to the Martel Forest, to Arbor America, Inc., and to the Purdue Throckmorton Agricultural Center and Meigs Farm. Lunch is included. Buses will load at 8:00 AM at a location to be announced.
- 6:00 PM
- Dinner on your own
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
- 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM
- Breakfast on your own
- 8:00 AM - 9 AM
- Past Presidents' Reflections: Stewart Center.
- 8:30 PM - 2:00 PM
- CAP Activity: CAP Tour to the Fair Oaks dairy Farm. Bus will load at a location to be announced.
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
- Technical Presentations: Stewart Center
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 PM
- Break
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
- Technical Presentations continued: Stewart Center
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Lunch on your own
- 1:30 AM - 3:00 PM
- Technical Presentations: Stewart Center
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
- Break
- 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
- Technical Presentations, continued
- 6:00 PM
- Banquet: Memorial Union
Keynote Address: Rob Swihart, Head of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue, Understanding the behavior of squirrels from a wildlife perspective.
Election of officers and conclusion of NNGA Annual Meeting.Thursday, July 23, 2009
- 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM
- Breakfast on your own
- 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
- Optional Field Trip to Gene and Betty Wild's apple orchard, Charles Spurgeon's large Carya collection, and Jerry Lehman's persimmon and pawpaw orchard.
Board buses at Purdue Union Club Hotel at 7:30 AM and depart for Cary Quad at 7:45. Guests at Cary Quad will board buses in the Cary parking lot at 8:00 AM. Buses and tag-along autos depart for Indianapolis shortly thereafter. Maps will be provided for those who are driving. At Noon, lunch will be provided at Franklin Park in the City of Plainfield. Buses will arrive back in West Lafayette by 5:30 PM.Planned Presentations
Speakers are still coming forward and more are expected. Two classrooms are reserved to facilitate concurrent sessions and talks will be grouped into sessions. Please contact Jim McKenna at jrmckenn@purdue.edu if you would like to speak at this historic meeting. Some presenters have yet to title their talk. As of late May, the following presenters and topics have been identified:
Jerry Henkin, Starting Black Walnuts
Jeanne Romero-Severson, Her Butternut cultivar Work
Sean Hoban, Preserving Butternuts in the Wild
Bill Lord, A History of the American Butternut
Michele Warmund, Black Walnut Ambers: New information on an Old Problem
Sandra Anagnostakis, Where are the Ozark Chinquapins?; Planting Chestnuts in the Forest; Why Treasurers Get Gray Hair…
Dennis Fulbright, et al, Improving Chestnut Quality
Tom Molnar, Hybrid Hazelnut Consortium
Wes Rice, Pecans for the Orient: An Update
Kirk Pomper, Pawpaw
Greg Reighard, Persimmon
Greg Miller, NNGA President, Looking into the crystal ball for the next 100 years
Ron Overton, Small-scale irrigation for trees
Bob Karfalt, Seed quality for germination
Mike Ostry, Butternut Conservation
Mark Coggeshall, Walnut improvement and cultivar development
Jim McKenna, Chinese chestnut resistance to chestnut blight
Paul Howard, Pawpaw variety trials
Keith Woeste, Black walnut nursery density trial
Matt Krausher, Herbicide considerations for young trees
Lisa Worthen, Pollinizer effects on chestnut seed size
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