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.