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Agenda Agroforestry Education Training for Natural Resource Professionals held in Lanesboro, M Nc

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The one-day Agroforestry Training-Workshop for Natural Resource Professionals will take place on June 5, 2008 in Lanesboro, Minnesota. The morning session will include presentations on alley cropping, silvopasture, forest farming, riparian buffers, the role of agroforestry in biomass energy and carbon sequestration, agroforestry and wildlife, and cost-share programs. After a boxed lunch on the bus, the afternoon field tour will include visits to agroforestry sites at Lea McEvilly's farm and the Badgersette Hazelnut Farm to observe different agroforestry practices.

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Agroforestry Training-Workshop for Natural Resource Professionals Agenda June 5, 2008 Lanesboro, MN MORNING SESSION: 8:00-8:30 Registration 8:30-8:45 Welcome, Overview of the Principle and concept of Agroforestry Speaker: Diomy Zamora, Assistant Extension Professor, University of Minnesota Extension 8:45-9:15 Alley cropping as an alternative approach to enhancing ecological and economic productivity Speaker: Mike Demchik, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Steven Point 9:15-10:00 Silvopasture and forest farming agroforestry practices as approaches to increasing landowners’ productivity, income and woodland management Speaker: Dusty Walter, Agroforestry Technology Transfer Specialist, University of Missouri - Center for Agroforestry 10:00-10:10 Break 10:10-10:40 Riparian Buffers/Implementing agroforestry concepts in the riparian forest buffer standard. Speaker: Ginger Kopp, State Staff Forester, NRCS, Minnesota 10:40:11:05 The role of agroforestry in biomass energy production Speaker: Gregg Johnson, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota 11:05-11:30 The role of Agroforestry in carbon sequestration Cost and benefit analysis of agroforestry practices Speaker: Dean Current, Program Director, Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management (CINRAM), University of Minnesota 11:30-11:45 Agroforestry and Wildlife Speaker: Dusty Walter, Agroforestry Technology Transfer Specialist, University of Missouri – Center for Agroforestry 11:45-12:00 The cost-share programs for agroforestry Speaker: Ginger Kopp, State Staff Forester, NRCS, Minnesota LUNCH 12:10 Bus leaves to Caledonia, MN Lunch will be served at the Bus (Box Lunch)
AFTERNOON SESSION – FIELD TOUR 1:10-2:15 Agroforestry site visits at Lea McEvilly’s farm and surrounding agroforestry areas 2: 15-3:15 Travel back to Eagle Bluff to visit the Badgersette Hazelnut Farm 3:15:4:00 Badgersette Hazelnut Farm tour 4:00 Adjourn

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Agenda Agroforestry Education Training for Natural Resource Professionals held in Lanesboro, M Nc

  • 1. Agroforestry Training-Workshop for Natural Resource Professionals Agenda June 5, 2008 Lanesboro, MN MORNING SESSION: 8:00-8:30 Registration 8:30-8:45 Welcome, Overview of the Principle and concept of Agroforestry Speaker: Diomy Zamora, Assistant Extension Professor, University of Minnesota Extension 8:45-9:15 Alley cropping as an alternative approach to enhancing ecological and economic productivity Speaker: Mike Demchik, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Steven Point 9:15-10:00 Silvopasture and forest farming agroforestry practices as approaches to increasing landowners’ productivity, income and woodland management Speaker: Dusty Walter, Agroforestry Technology Transfer Specialist, University of Missouri - Center for Agroforestry 10:00-10:10 Break 10:10-10:40 Riparian Buffers/Implementing agroforestry concepts in the riparian forest buffer standard. Speaker: Ginger Kopp, State Staff Forester, NRCS, Minnesota 10:40:11:05 The role of agroforestry in biomass energy production Speaker: Gregg Johnson, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota 11:05-11:30 The role of Agroforestry in carbon sequestration Cost and benefit analysis of agroforestry practices Speaker: Dean Current, Program Director, Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management (CINRAM), University of Minnesota 11:30-11:45 Agroforestry and Wildlife Speaker: Dusty Walter, Agroforestry Technology Transfer Specialist, University of Missouri – Center for Agroforestry 11:45-12:00 The cost-share programs for agroforestry Speaker: Ginger Kopp, State Staff Forester, NRCS, Minnesota LUNCH 12:10 Bus leaves to Caledonia, MN Lunch will be served at the Bus (Box Lunch)
  • 2. AFTERNOON SESSION – FIELD TOUR 1:10-2:15 Agroforestry site visits at Lea McEvilly’s farm and surrounding agroforestry areas 2: 15-3:15 Travel back to Eagle Bluff to visit the Badgersette Hazelnut Farm 3:15:4:00 Badgersette Hazelnut Farm tour 4:00 Adjourn