2012 Seminars & Short Courses

THURSDAY SEMINARS
9:30-9:45 Ron Macher (Publisher, Small Farm Today magazine)
9:45  Keynote address: John Ikerd
10:30  Grafting Tomatoes. - Dr. Sanjun Gu
11:45   Aquaponics. - Chuck Hicks
1:00 p.m. “Selling What You Know, Selling What You Grow”. - Kelly Klober
2:15 p.m.  Free Choice Enterprises:  How Grass Grows and How it Effects Cattle. - Mark Bader 
3:30 p.m. Why We Need To Preserve The Lippitt Morgan; The Lippitt Morgan Horse Registry

FRIDAY SEMINARS
8:30 Mob Grazing Offers the Greatest Opportunity in Agriculture. - Robert Kinkead D.V.M.
9:45  ”Equipment”. - Norman Kilmer, Morgan County Seeds
11:00 Ups & Downs with Raising a Heritage Breed of Cattle, Eventual Success
12:15 New Age Swine Production. - Kelly Klober
1:30 p.m. Soil Amendments. - Ralph Voss
2:15 p.m. Vegetable Plant Nutrition. - James Quinn
4:00 p.m.  Sandhill Preservation Center; Preservation of Seeds and Plants for Diversification. - Glen Drowns

SATURDAY SEMINARS
8:30-9:30 Small Laying Flock Breeding and Managing. - Kelly Klober
9:30-10:30 Soil Blocks. - Caroline Hargrog
11:00 Ration Balancing Using Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen. - Mark Barber
12:15 Sustainable Cropping Systems. - Rob Meyers
1:30 p.m. Demonstration on Strip Grazing. - Greg Judy
2:45-5:00 p.m. Teaching Pastured Poultry Producers On-Farm Processing Best Management Practices
for a Safer Product. - Kevin Backes

THURSDAY SHORT COURSES
10:30 - 1:00 p.m. Survival Raised
                  Bed Gardening. - Len Pense

1:30 - 3:00 p.m Cheese from Missouri.                  - Janet Hurst

FRIDAY SHORT COURSES
8:30-11:00 Value Added Products
                 You Grow. - Ernie Bohner

11:30-2:00 Starting with Berries.
                - Patrick Byers

3:30-4:30 ”Ethnic Vegetables”. - Steve Salt


SATURDAY SHORT COURSES
8:30-11:00 Managing Your Grazing in Sync with Nature Equals Greater Profits. - Greg Judy

11:30 Movable High Tunnels. - Dan Kuebler

2:30 Elder Berries. - Terry Durham