2012 NCR-SARE FARMERS' FORUMS

THURSDAY FARMERS' FORUMS
10:30 Sustainable Beekeeping: Increasing Production and Utilization of Northern-adapted, Disease & Mite Resistant Honey Bee Queens. - Stu Jacobson

11:00 Using Grazing Wedges to Match Beef
Cattle Nutrient Need with Pasture Resources While Reducing Feed & Fertility Costs. - Justin Sexten

11:30 A Survey of Relationships Among
Rare Breeds of Pigs. - Kizzi Roberts

12:00 Lunch  

12:30 Lunch  

1:00 Tomato Vegetable Grafting - Sanjun Gu

1:30 Good Agricultural Practices (GAPS)
for Horticulture Producers. - Marlin Bates

2:00 Adding Chickens to High Tunnel
Production. - Kay Neff

2:30 Organic Farm to School-Lunch Table:
Opportunities for Youth on the Farm - Rachel Levi

3:00 To Each Her Own: Wild Bee Pollinators
of Cucurbit Crops. - Amy Alesch

3:30 Business Feasibility, Marketing, and On-line Direct Marketing; In-depth Training to Better Serve Sustainable Agriculture Business. - Jim Crandall

4:00 Extending the Vegetable Growing Season with Low Cost Quick Hoops. - Curtis Millsap

4:30 Southern Boone Learning Garden.
- Jennifer Grabner

FRIDAY FARMERS' FORUMS 
9:00 A Real Education: Lessons learned from a farm-to-school program. - Garrett Grider

9:30 Soy-Free, Corn-Free Layer Chicken Feed, Identifying a Niche Market. - Jeri Villarreal 

10:00 Fieldhands and Foodways: A Cultural & Historical Urban Farm Program. - Venice Williams & Fatuma Emmad

10:30 cont.  

11:00 cont.  

11:30 Sustainability of a Short-Rotation Woody Biofuel System Compared to Grass Biofuel & Grain Cropping Systems. - Hank Stelzer

12:00 Weston A. Price Foundation - Shanyna Sasken

12:30 cont.

1:00 Skip Row Corn Planting Techniques with Cover Crops for Sustainable Growing. - Harry & Rose Cope

1:30 Aquaponic Farmers: Building a New Interest in Satisfying the Appetites of the Future. - Robert Dillon

2:00 cont.  

2:30 Elderberry:  A Rapidly Growing Specialty
Crop Industry in the U.S. Midwest. - Michael Gold

3:00 cont.  

3:30 Wild Eating: Bringing food production back to nature. - Laura Worstell

4:00 Truffle Orchard Establishment- Daniel Hellmuth

SATURDAY FARMERS' FORUMS
9:30 Integrated Pest Management for Small
Hive Beetles. - John Nenninger

10:00 cont.  

10:30 Farming with Urban Youth: Developing Eco. Literacy through a Summer Agri. Course. - Levi Gardner

11:00 Growing a Future: Preparing Tomorrow’s Sustainable Growers Today. - Dan Kenney

11:30 Creating Productive and Profitable Landscapes with Native Plants. - Nadia Navarrete-Tindall

12:00 Lunch – Missouri Organic Assoc. mtg 

12:30 Lunch – Missouri Organic Assoc. mtg  

1:00 Hoeing Hens: Using Laying Hens in Mobile Chicken Coops to Reduce Tillage, Cultivation &
Weed Pressure & Increase Fertility in Vegetable Production. - Pieter Los

1:30 The Effect of Commercially-added Mycorrhiza and/or Compost on Early Growth of Berry bushes. - Cathy, Patricia, & Sebastian Hanus

2:00 Adding Value to Missouri Family Farm by Incorporating Aquaculture into Existing Farm Operation, Expanding Prawn & Trout Into an Existing Hybrid Bluegill Operation in a One-Year Cycle. - Joe Gaylord

2:30 Maintaining Companion Planting Techniques While Mechanizing in Diverse, Small-Farm Vegetable Operations. - Rob Faux

3:00-3:55 pm  The Cheapest Way to Produce the Best Eggs: whole grains and pasture-raised laying hens. - John Arbuckle