Green Horizons

Don’t miss this workshop in woodlot management and agroforestry! Discussions include: integrating forestry management on the farm; nuts as a growing market; lease hunting as an additional income; non-timber products and marketing and managing a profitable woodlot. Featured speakers include Gene Garrett of the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry; Joe Wilson of the Missouri Northern Pecan Growers LLC; Skip Mourglia of the USDA Southwest Missouri Resource Conservation and Development and Mike Gold of the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry.

Field tours include the low maintenance/fast establishing Robert Karr windbreak demonstration; the Southwest Research Center nut orchards, including 800 grafted trees; nut harvest equipment and improved varieties of walnuts, pecans, hickories and pawpaws; and a walk-through of a family forest to discuss forest management and harvest issues. A wood-mizer (or portable sawmill) will also be demonstrated during this section of the tour. See below for registration information.

Talking Nuts: Bill Reid, (far left), Kansas State Research and Extension Specialist on nut crops, discusses pecan cultivar traits at the University of Missouri Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center, New Franklin, Mo. The farm tour was part of the Northern Nut Growers Assn./ North American Fruit Explorers joint annual meeting, held in Columbia, Mo., Aug. 15-19, 2004.

Register now for "Realizing the Value of Trees in the Farming System" Agroforestry Workshop Send name, address, phone number, email address, number of wooded acres and county name with $8 check by Monday, Oct. 25th to: Missouri Farmers Union 325 Jefferson City, Suite 100A Jefferson City, Mo. 65101 ph: (573) 659-4787 On-site registration is $10, but preregistration is strongly suggested. For more information or to see a list of additional sponsors, visit www.missourifarmersunion.org.