Green Horizons

The University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry (UMCA) will offer a two-day Professional Agroforestry Training for natural resource professionals on January 10-11, 2001. This course will introduce new, practical information for the design and implementation of agroforestry practices in Missouri. Even if you have attended a course previously offered by UMCA, you will find the material more in-depth and informative and the design sessions applied. Registration, limited to 100 people, costs $55 prior to December 15 and $65 after December 15. Registration includes breaks, two box lunches and materials:

• An agroforestry training manual with over 100 pages of information on the five temperate agroforestry practices - alley cropping, silvopasture, forest farming, riparian forest buffers and windbreaks, as well as detailed county-by- county listing of tree, forage and grass species suitable for agroforestry;
• A copy of the new agroforestry book, North American Agroforestry: An Integrated Science and Practice (402 pages);
• A collection of 25 slides, with explanations, to illustrate each of the five practices; and,
• Two videos, silvopasture and alley cropping, for use with landowners or to train other resource professionals. The videos describe the practice and what you need to think about to implement it. It also has several landowners discussing why they adopted agroforestry.

For registration and hotel information, contact the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry at 203 ABNR, Columbia, MO 65211, ATTN: Dusty Walter (573) 884-7991; (WalterD@missouri.edu). Or visit the web page at: www.missouri.edu/~umca

New agroforestry training manual debuts January 10-11 at the professional agroforestry training course.