101st Annual NNGA Meeting

College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio - July 18 - 21, 2010

Sunday, July 18, 2010

10 AM - 1:00 PM

NNGA Board Meeting: Lowery Student Center

1 PM - 5:30 PM

Registration: Lowery Main Lodge

1 PM

Exhibit area will be open and available for set up: Faculty Lounge in Lowery

6:00 - 8:00 PM

Welcome Barbecue: Horticultural Gardens, Lowery Back Patio

8:00 - 10:00 PM

Show and Tell--Jerry Lehman will once again host this popular event which will be held at the Lowery Back Patio after the barbeque.

Monday, July 19, 2010

7:00 AM

Breakfast at Lowry Dining Hall

7:00 AM

NNGA Registration continues in Lowery

8:00 AM

Welcome and Introduction

8:15 AM

Program
Observations from a Lifetime of Growing Hickory, Bill Totten

8:45 AM

Program
Sudden Oak Wilt, Don Cobb

9:15 AM

Program
Genetically Modified American Chestnuts, Dr. Charles Maynard

9:45 AM

Business Meeting

10:15 AM

Refreshment Break

10:45 AM

Program
Update on Rutgers Hazel Project, Dr. Thomas Molnar

11:15 AM

Program
Forming and Fine Tuning a Nut - Grower Cooperative, Robert Blackwell

12:00 PM

Lunch at Lowry Dining Hall

1:00 PM

Program
Thousand Cankers Disease, Dr. Mark Coggeshall

1:30 PM

Program
Hickory Culture, David Johnson

1:30 PM

CAP Activity:
Tour of the P. Graham Dunn Factory and store which makes many items from wood. Transportation will be via car pooling.

2:00 PM

Program
Chestnut Gall Wasp Research, Dr. Lynn Rieske-Kinney

2:30 PM

Refreshment Break

3:00 PM

Program
Growing Pawpaws in Appalachia, Dr. Ron Powell

3:30 PM

Program
New Oak Cultivars for Acorn Production, Ken Asmus

4:00 PM

Program
Eastern Filbert Blight - A Problem Solved, Phillip Rutter

4:30 PM

Program
#1 Hickory Cultivar, Dr. Fred Blankenship

5:00 PM

Dinner at Dining Hall

5:00 PM

Open Doors for Auction

7:00 PM - end

Annual Auction

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

7:00 AM

Breakfast at Lowry Dining Hall

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

CAP Activity:
Board bus at 8 PM for all day tour of the Amish country with a guide. Stop for lunch on your own.

8:00 AM

Program
Priorities for Research among Specialty Crop Growers, Dr. Dennis Fulbright

8:30 AM

Program
Progress on the New Black Walnut Growers Co-op, Larry Martin

9:00 AM

Program
Heartnuts, Ernie Grimo

9:30 AM

Program
Carbon Sequestration - Opportunity for Nut Growers, Dr. Douglas Jacobs

10:00 AM

Refreshment Break

10:30 AM

Program
Local Marketing of Black Walnuts and Hickory in Ohio, Ken Bauman

11:00 AM

Program
Butternut Culture, Parker Coble

11:30 AM

Program
Butternut Blight, Dr. Sunshine Brosi

12:00 PM

Lunch at Lowry Dining Hall

1:00 PM

Program
New Short Season Pecan Cultivars, Dr. William Goff

1:30 PM

OPEN

2:00 PM

OPEN

2:30 PM

Refreshment Break

3:00 PM

Program
Tree Crop Architecture, Dr. Hill Craddock

3:30 PM

Program
Kaki Persimmon Culture and the KSD Syndrome, Dr. Gregory L. Reighard

4:00 PM

Program
Growing Hickory Nut Trees in Ohio, Bud Luers

4:30 PM

Wrap-up

6:30 PM

Group Photo

7:00 PM

Dinner Banquet

8:00 PM

Entertainment - Mark Twain impersonator, Professor Richard Goodman

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

8:00 AM - 5 PM (Time Approximate)

Field trips - The first stop will be at Bob and Marie Stehli's seedling Chestnut orchard consisting of approximately 10,000 seedling Chestnut trees. These trees are mostly descendants of trees that have been tested and found to produce a high percentage of high quality nut producing seedling trees. There will be grafting demonstrations by several expert grafters, and some Chestnut sorting and orchard equipment will be on display. We will have lunch at the orchard.

The second stop will be and Bud and Marilyn Luers' tree farm where there are over 100 different hickory cultivars growing and a large selection of Walnut, Hazelnut, Heartnut and Hican grafted trees. Nut hulling and processing equipment will be on display.

Speakers, topics and times are subject to change. A more complete program booklet including meeting room locations, speaker addresses and biographies will be available at the meeting registration desk.

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