To list your organization’s activity in the Southeast Farm Press Calendar of Events, send details, including contact person, phone number, etc., to Glen Rutz, SEFP, P.O. Box 420, Clarksdale, Miss. 38614 or e-mail: grutz@farmpress.com
Nov. 12-15: American Agri-Women 34th Annual Meeting, Salem, Ore. http://www.americanagriwomen.org.
Nov. 20: University of Tennessee Plateau Research & Education Center Fall Cattle Sale, Crossville, Tenn. For additional information go to http://plateau.tennessee.edu.
Dec. 1: American Soybean Association Board of Directors Meeting, Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark, St. Louis, Mo.
Dec. 4-5: United States Freshwater Prawn Growers Assoc. Annual Convention, Gold Strike Casino Resort, Tunica, Miss. The program will be a mixture of the results of scientific research, producer experiences, new grower information, and marketing techniques. Exhibitors will showcase the latest in aquaculture equipment and supplies. Details of the meeting will be posted at www.freshwaterprawn.org. For further information email usprawngrowers@yahoo.com or phone Dolores Fratesi at (662) 390-3528.
Dec. 9-11: Soybean Rust Symposium, American Phytopathological Society, New Orleans. The symposium is a national forum at which knowledge acquired during the first five years of soybean rust research will be discussed and strategic plans for research and response in future years will be defined. APS held the first National Soybean Rust Symposium in 2005 and has been a leader in organizing and disseminating information on this critical disease in the years that followed. The symposium program will feature presentations and discussions for scientists and practitioners on such topics as the status of soybean rust in the United States, as well as poster viewing and sessions on challenges in the 2010 sentinel plot system; advances in monoclonal antibody development; wheat rust/soybean rust similarities; prediction of yield loss from soybean rust; alternative methods to manage soybean rust, and more. After Nov. 30, registration will be available onsite in New Orleans. To register, go to http://www.apsnet.org/online/sbr/register.aspx.
Dec. 10: Alabama Forage Conference — University of West Alabama, Livingston, Ala.
Jan. 4-7: Beltwide Cotton Conferences, New Orleans Marriott and Sheraton New Orleans hotels, New Orleans, La. For more information, contact: National Cotton Council, P.O. Box 2995, Cordova, TN 38088, (901) 274-9030, FX (901) 725-0510, or email: beltwide@cotton.org.
Jan. 12-14: Joint meetings of the National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference, Southern Corn and Soybean Conference, Southern Precision Agriculture Conference (Jan. 12-13), and the conference of the newly-formed Southern Field Crop Alliance, which will immediately follow (Jan. 13-14). All sessions at Harrah's Tunica Convention Center, Tunica, Miss. The SFCA conference will provide a forum for discussion of issues across crops and agricultural disciplines, and provide an avenue for all segments of southern ag industries to come to together for education and shared learning exercises. For more information on SFCA, contact Angus Catchot at acatchot@entomology.msstate.edu or B. Rogers Leonard at rleonard@agcenter.lsu.edu. Details of the four conferences can be viewed at www.mafg.net.
Jan. 10-13: American Farm Bureau Annual Meeting, Seattle, Wash. For information go to http://www.fb.org.
Jan. 8-10: Georgia Fruit & Vegetable Conference, Savannah, Ga.
Jan. 13-15: Ag Connect Expo 2010, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida. Attendees will find the latest innovations, products, services and technology in all agriculture sectors and will be able to network and discuss industry trends and issues with experts worldwide. http://www.agconnect.com.
Jan. 19: Alabama Soybean Association Annual Meeting, Huntsville, Ala.
Jan. 20-23: Southern Southeastern Annual Meeting, The Westin, Charlotte, N.C.
Jan. 22: Kentucky Commodity Conference, Holiday Inn University Plaza, Bowling Green, Ky. This is the annual meeting of the Kentucky Soybean Association, the Kentucky Corn Growers Association and the Kentucky Small Grain Producers Association.
Feb. 5-8: National Cotton Council Annual Meeting, The Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tenn.
Feb. 18-19: 2010 Agricultural Outlook Forum, Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, Va. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will keynote the forum titled “Sustainable Agriculture: The Key to Health & Prosperity.” Focus on a broad range of topical issues related to rural communities, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, conservation, and food safety and security. The forum also will feature traditional USDA commodity supply and demand and food price outlooks. USDA will Web cast the entire morning plenary speeches. The program and registration information is at: http://www.usda.gov/oce/forum. Registration is $350 until Jan. 15, and $375 thereafter. Plenary speeches will be Web cast after 3:30 p.m. EST on Feb. 18, and breakout session speech and PowerPoint presentations will be posted online after 5 p.m., Feb. 19.
March 3: Tifton Performance Tested Bull Sale, Irwinville, Ga. For information contact Robert Stewart at "a href="mailto:rstwart@uga.edu">rstwart@uga.edu.
March 4-6: Commodity Classic, Mariott Hotel, Anaheim, Calif.
March 14-19: American Soybean Association Board of Directors Meeting, Washington Court, Washington, D.C.
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