Great Plains Vegetable Growers Conference

GPVGC Friday, January 8, 2010 Schedule
Registration and the Trade Show open at 8:00 am.
Time	Classroom TBD	Classroom 216	Classroom 214	Mead Room
Registration opens at 8:00 am	Small Fruit	Organic	Greenhouse Production	Vegetable & Integrated Pest Management
9:30 am	Berry Production & an Update on New Cultivar Releases – Pat Byers	Rotations, Fertility, and Crops Grown (How to) – Zaid & Haifa Kurdieh	What do I Need to Know to Grow my Own Vegetable Transplants – Hank Taber TALK CANCELLED	Tomato - Chuck Marr Tomato handhout Pepper handout
10:15 am	BREAK
10:30 am		MORNING COFFEE AND SNACK BREAK IN TRADE SHOW AREA
10:45 am	Strawberries & other berries – Wayne Simpson
11:00 am		Organic Tomato Production: From Heirloom to High Tunnel – Kathleen Delate	Sweet Potato session – Ted Carey, Stephanie Thomas, & Rusty Lee	Hot Disease Topics of 2009 – Megan Kennelly Resources Pristine label Quadris label
11:30 am
11:45 am	Growing and Selling Blueberries - Doug Grimm			Foliar Disease Control on Tomatoes, Cucurbits & Other Veggies – Wendy Johnson
12:00 pm		Lunch provided in the University’s
12:30 pm	campus dining area. Down the corridor from the registration table.
1:00 – 2:30 pm	General Session with keynote speaker Kamyar Enshayan. Kamyar has directed the local food program for University of Northern Iowa since 1997. He is an agricultural engineer by training and is the Director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Education at UNI. He teaches classes in environmental studies, and is the recipient of 2008 Sustainable Agriculture Achievement Award by Practical Farmers of Iowa. This session will be held in the main auditorium on the 1^st floor. Lincoln University is a co-sponsor of this session.
2:30 – 3:00 pm	BREAK in the Trade Show area
	GAP	Organic	Bees	Vegetable & Integrated Pest Management
3:00 pm	Farm to Table Food Safety – Sam Beattie TALK CANCELLED	Organic Weed Control –Mike Appel & Emily Oakley	Wild Bees and Vegetable Production – Dori Porter	Update on New Conventional Insecticides for Vegetables – Raymond Cloyd
3:30 pm				Small Grower Herbicide Options ‘Beyond Round-up’ – Jim Quinn
3:45 pm	Participating in the USDA GAP & GHP Audit Program; Getting certified for a Food Safety Plan – David Markwardt	Organic Insect Pest Control (includes a review on the efficacy of organic insecticides) – Raymond Cloyd	To Bee or Not to Bee… a Beekeeper – Steve Tipton
4:00 pm				Weed Control in Pumpkins; Results from an Iowa Study – Hank Taber
4:30 – 5:30 pm	State Association Meetings
	Kansas	Nebraska	Missouri
8:00 – 9:00 pm	Grower Innovation Hour of Fun - - Join us AT THE RAMADA INN Moderators: Chuck Marr & Hank Taber Bring your ideas on new equipment designs, growing and marketing techniques, etc., and compete free conference registration at next year’s conference.

GPVGC Saturday, January 9, 2010 Schedule
Time	Classroom TBD	Classroom 216	Classroom 214	Mead Room
Registration opens at 8:00 am	Vegetable Production	Beginner Vegetable Production Workshop	Cut Flowers Workshop	Advanced Farmers Market
8:30 am	Sweet Corn Variety Update - Seed Corn Reps TBD	Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition – Jim Quinn Weed Control – Jim Quinn Vegetable Crop Irrigation – Tim Baker	Getting Started with Cut Flowers – Frank & Pamela Arnosky	State & Federal Funding - Mary Henderickson
9:00 am	Seedless Watermelon and Eggplants Update – Sanjun Gu
9:15 am				Farm Visits & Inspections – Eileen Nichols Organic Without Certification – Marlin Bates
9:30 am	Pumpkins – Tim Vala
10:00 am	BREAK		BREAK	BREAK
10: 15 am
10:30 am	New Seed Varieties for 2010 – Johnny's Selected Seeds		Midwestern Specialty Cuts – Karen “Mimo” Davis	Farmers Market Communications 2.0 – Lisa Bralts
10:45 am		BREAK
11:00 am	Black Plastic Onion Production – Wayne Simpson
11:15 am		Greenhouse/ High Tunnel – Sanjun Gu Recommended Variety List – Marlin Bates
11:30 am	Hot Season Lettuce Production – Patrice Gros			Volunteers, Friends of the Market & Sponsorships - Tracey Graham The Community “Webb”- Eileen Nichols Now What?- Billene Nemec
12:00 pm
12:15 pm	Lunch provided in the University’s campus dining area.
12:30 pm	Down the corridor from the registration table. Trade Show is open.
1:00 pm		Vegetable Disease Control & Post Harvest Handling – Tim Baker Selling and Marketing Vegetables – Mary Henderickson Vegetable Insect Pest Control – Jim Quinn	The Next Level – Advanced Cut Flower Production – Frank & Pamela Arnosky Cut Flower Grower Panel – Lynn Byczynski
1:15 pm	My Experience with GAPs Certification – Diane Endicott			Small Town, Small Market, BIG News – Rosanna Bauman
1:45 pm	Farm to College Dining Panel – Jim Quinn, Hank Taber and others TBD			Promoting & Managing Your Farmers’ Market – Caroline Todd
2:15 pm	Common Mistakes of Growers on Organic Certification & Inspection – Sue Baird			How to Work a Market – Zaid & Haifa Kurdieh
3:00 – 3:30 pm	Permaculture Principles in Small Scale Vegetable Production – Daniel Dermitzel & Steve Moring (ends at 4 pm)			Extending the Market Season with High Tunnels – Dave Heidebrink

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