Green Horizons

Volume 3, Number 3
Summer 1998

Looking for a place

to hold your organization's next meeting? Consider the University of Missouri Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center in New Franklin. The Center has approximately 600 acres devoted to research in agroforestry and horticulture. Tours can be provided, including tour wagons for larger groups. Hot meals can be catered for a cost of $8.50 per person. For more information, contact Nancy Bishop at (660) 848-2268.


Landowners Service Council and Regional Private Lands
program leaders involved with the private lands program with
the Missouri Department of Conservation recently held a
11/2-day quarterly meeting at HARC. The group is listening
to Ken Tourjee, tree improvement specialist of the
University of Missouri Agroforestry Center, discuss his
walnut tree improvement program.

Recent visitors to HARC


The 27th class of Graduate Institute of Cooperative
Leadership, sponsored by MU agricultural economics recently
had dinner and a tour at the University of Missouri
Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center in New
Franklin. During the 41/2-day program, 48 mid-level managers
from cooperatives (primarily agricultural) scattered
throughout the United States, focused on some of the unique
challenges that firms organized as cooperatives face which
investor-owned firms do not.