Green Horizons Newsletter - AgEBB

Green Horizons

Volume 8, Number 4
Fall 2004
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Center for Agroforestry hosts Pre-Congress Tour of Midwestern Agroforestry

Rosemary Loft
Rosemary Lott, tour participant from Kingston, Australia, takes notes on pine straw production at the HARC farm.
Prior to the 1st World Congress of Agroforestry, a group of twenty-four attendees representing 8 countries received a first-hand look at agroforestry practices in the Midwest. The Pre-Congress Tour of Midwestern Agroforestry Practices, coordinated by the Center for Agroforestry, highlighted agroforestry demonstration areas and landowner efforts across Missouri efforts across Missouri and Iowa on June 23-25, 2004.

Tour stops in Iowa included the Iowa State University windbreak practice demonstration area, Ogden; the Bear Creek Riparian Buffer Demonstration area located near Story City; and Ben's Black Walnut Orchards and processing facility, Centerville. In Missouri, tour stops included the Deer Ridge, Henry Sever, and Ross Jones Farm alley cropping practice demonstrations near Novelty; University of Missouri Greenley Memorial Research Center; Shepherd Farms located in Clifton Hill; and the pine straw, silvopasture, flood lab, clonal trial and alley cropping demonstration areas at the University of Missouri Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center, New Franklin, Mo.

Windbreak Practice at Iowa State University
Pre-Congress Tour participants explore the windbreak practice demonstration area at Iowa State University.

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