| Sunday, June 12, 2005 |
| 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. |
Registration
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| 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. |
Welcome Reception (Heritage Hall I) |
| Monday, June 13 |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. |
Registration
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| 8:30 – 12:00 p.m. |
General Session (Heritage Hall I)
Moderator: Ken Brooks, University of Minnesota
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| 8:30 |
Welcome
Dean Current, Chair, AFTA
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| 8:50 |
Welcoming remarks
Susan Stafford, Dean, College of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota
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| 9:00 |
Minnesota’s Natural Heritage
Mel Baugman, Associate Dean College of Natural Resources,
University of Minnesota
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| 9:20 |
Overview of the 10th North American Agroforestry Conference
Alain Olivier, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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| 9:35 |
Translating Agroforestry Practice into Policy & Programs
Merlin Bartz, Central Regional Assistant Chief, Natural Resources Conservation
Service
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| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Break
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| 10:30 |
Green Lands, Blue Waters
Steve Morse, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University
of Minnesota
Dean Current, Department of Forest Resources and CINRAM, University of
Minnesota
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| 11:00 |
The White Water to Blue Water Partnership
Greg Ruark, Program Manager, USDA National Agroforestry Center
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| 11:30 |
Silvopastoralism and Watershed Management in the Southwestern
United States
Daniel G. Neary, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Station,
Flagstaff, AZ
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| 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch
(Heritage Halls II and III)
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| 1:30 – 5:30 p.m. |
Concurrent Sessions
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Session I: Watershed Management (WSM)
Room: Heritage Hall I
Moderators: Joe Magner, University of Minnesota
Harry Hendrickson, Illinois Buffer Partnership, Trees Forever
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1:30 |
Placement of Riparian Buffers to Improve Water Quality, Mark Tomer
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2:00 |
Soil Water Content and Infiltration in Agroforestry Buffer
Strips, Stephen Anderson
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2:30 |
Stream Bank Erosion under Different Riparian Land-use Practices
in Northeast Iowa, George N. Zaimes
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3:00 |
Break
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3:30 |
Soil Microbiological Activities in Vegetative Buffer Strips
and their Association with Herbicide Degradation, C.H. Lin
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4:00 |
Assessing Agroforestry Options for Water Quality Using Regional
Hydraulic Geometry Curves, Joe Magner
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4:30 |
Runoff and Sediment from Woody and Herbaceous Perennial Crops
and an Annual Crop, Aaron Colson
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Session II: Economics
Room: Windsor Hall II
Moderator: Larry Godsey, University of Missouri
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1:30 |
Competitive Market Analysis – Chestnut Producers, Michael
A. Gold
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2:00 |
Social Goods in Prairie Shelterbelts, Surendra Kulshreshtha
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2:30 |
Assessing the Market Potential of Specialty Forest Products
in Local Food Systems of Iowa, Carole Teator
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3:00 |
Break
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3:30 |
The Economics of Forest Farming of Native Medicinal Plants
in Eastern North America: Opportunities, Challenges, and
Potential Solutions for Adoption by Forest Landowners, Michael Jacobson
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4:00 |
Key Requirements for a Successful Private Forestry Marketing
Cooperative, Andrew Lang
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Carbon Sequestration |
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4:30 |
Agroforestry - Working Trees for Sequestering Carbon on AG-Lands,
Michele Schoeneberger
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5:00 |
Soil Carbon Content within a Red Cedar-Scotch Pine Shelterbelt, Thomas Sauer
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Session III: Applications/Practices
Room: Windsor Hall III
Moderators: P.K.R. Nair, University of Florida
Naresh Thevathasan, Department of Environmental Biology
University of Guelph
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1:30 |
Silvopasture with Sheep and Hybrid Poplar, Richard Shuren
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2:00 |
Forage Yield and Quality under Oak Crop Tree Management, Mike Demchik
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2:30 |
Cooperative Land Stewardship in the Borderlands of the Southwestern
United
States, Gerald Gottfried
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3:00 |
Break
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3:30 |
Effects of Landscape Position and Temperate Alley Cropping
Practices on Soil Carbon Dioxide and Nitrous Oxide Flux in
an Agricultural Watershed, Neal
Bailey
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4:00 |
Photosynthetically Active Radiation use Efficiency of Dactilis
Glomerata
in a Hardwood Silvopasture, C. M. Feldhake
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4:30 |
Growth of Southwest Pines at Different Stand Configurations
in Silvopastoral
Practices, Adrian Ares and Dan Pote
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| 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. |
Landowners’ session on
Agroforestry (Windsor Hall I) |
| Tuesday, June 14 |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. |
Registration
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| 8:30– 10:10 a.m. |
General Session (Heritage Hall I)
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Panel Discussion: 2007 Farm Bill: Moving Agroforestry
into the Mainstream
Moderator: Linda Meschke, Director Rural Advantage, Fairmont, Minnesota
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8:30 |
Introduction and Opening Remarks
Linda Meschke
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8:50 |
USDA Forest Service Perspectives on Agroforestry and the Farm
Bill
Ted Beauvais
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9:10 |
USDA NRCS Perspectives on Agroforestry and the Farm Bill
Doug Williams, National Forester
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9:30 |
AFTA White Paper on 2007 Farm Bill
Nadine Lehrer and Dean Current, University of Minnesota
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9:50 |
Questions and answers |
| 10:10 – 10:30 a.m. |
Break
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| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. |
Concurrent Sessions
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Session I: Adoption
Room: Viking Room
Moderator: Scott Josiah, State Forester, Nebraska
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10:30 |
Negotiating a Political Path to Agroforestry: Roots and Shoots
of the Conservation Security Program, Nadine Lehrer
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11:00 |
The Non-operator Landowner and Agroforestry: An Analysis
of Factors Associated with Interest in Agroforestry Practices, J. Gordan Arbuckle, Jr.
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11:30 |
Farmers and Woods: A Look at Woodlands and Woodland-Owner
Intentions in
the Heartland, W. Keith Moser
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12:00-1:30 p.m. |
Lunch (Heritage Halls II and III)
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1:30 |
Factors Affecting Farm Operators’ Interest in Incorporating
Riparian Buffers and Forest Farming Practices in Northeast and Southeast
Missouri, Corinne Valdivia
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2:00 |
Ecofarming and Agorforestry for Self-Reliance: Small-scale,
Sustainable Growing Practices in Russia, Leonid Sharashkin |
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2:30 |
Learning Groups for Promoting Perennial Cropping Systems
Dean Current
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3:00 |
Farm Level Tree Planting in Pakistan: The Role of Farmers’ Perceptions
and Attitudes, Muhammad Zubair
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Session II: Applications/Practices
Room: Heritage Hall I
Moderators: Lisa Zabek, Agroforestry Consultant
Shibou Jose, University of Florida
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10:30 |
Nitrogen Fixing Trees Influence Concentrations of Ammonium
and Amino Sugar-Nitrogen in Soils, Jing-Shu Wang
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11:00 |
Living Snow Fences: Protection That Keeps Growing, Two-Year
Growth Responses: Davenport WA Demonstration, Gary Kuhn
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11:30 |
Tree Growth and Crop Productivity in a Hybrid Poplar-Hardwood-Soybean
Intercropping System in Southwestern Quebec, Canada, David Rivest
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12:00-1:30 |
Lunch (Heritage Halls II and III)
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1:30 |
Arthropod Communities in Temperate Agroforestry: Theory and
Reality, W. Terrel Stamps
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2:00 |
Perennial Vegetation for Strategic Placement on Agricultural
Landscapes, Craig Sheaffer
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2:30 |
Growth of Eight-year-old American Ginseng in a Red Maple Forest
as Influenced by Lime and Organic Fertilizer Application, Alain
Olivier |
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Session III: Tools
Room: Centennial Hall
Moderators: Gary Wyatt, University of Minnesota
Ginger Kopp, NRCS
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10:30 |
C-LOCK: An Online System for Quantifying and Marketing Farmland
Carbon Sequestration Services, Karen Updegraff
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11:00 |
Tool Time: Melding Watershed and Site Goals on Private Lands, Gary Bentrup
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11:30 |
Inventorying Trees in Agricultural Landscapes: Toward an
Accounting of Working Trees, C. Hobie Perry
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12:00-1:30 |
Lunch (Heritage Halls II and III)
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1:30 |
CanVis: Visualizing Agroforestry Alternatives or Pixel This!, Gary Bentrup
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2:00 |
TRUE( R ) Cost Accounting in Agroforestry Systems: An Introduction
to the BC Sustainable Agroforestry Calculator, Yona Sipos
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2:30 |
Directing Educational Efforts to Meet Farmer Needs: Managing
Natural Resources in an Agricultural Landscape, Mike Demchik
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3:00 |
The ABC’s of SFPs: Beyond Sawtimber and Pulpwood, Kathleen
Preece and Colleen Oestreich
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| 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. |
Poster Session
Room: Heritage Halls II and III
Time: 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Coordinator: Les Everett and Lois Braun, University of Minnesota
Posters:
1. Ecosystem function and biodiversity in watersheds with contrasting annual-perennial
plant community configurations
Heidi Asbjornsen
2. Effects of buffer and grazing systems on run-off from pasturelands
David Brauer, Phillip Moore, and Dan Pote
3. Nitrogen Fertilization for Hybrid Hazelnuts in the Upper Midwest
Lois Braun
4. Forest Farming Learning Communities: A Second Generation
Louise E. Buck, Kenneth W. Mudge, Paul Treadwell, Michael G. Jacobson, Emily
J. Gallagher, James C. Finley
5. Soil Moisture Regimes Under Annual and Perennial Crops as Components of
Agroforestry Systems
Marin Byrne, Ken Brooks and Aaron Colson
6. Carbon and Nitrogen Partitioning in Aboveground Litter within a Mixed-Species
Shelterbelt
Cynthia Cambardella and Tom Sauer
7. Nitrate-N Distributions and Denitrification Potential Estimates for and
Agroforestry Site in the Ozark Highlands,
Sherri DeFauw
8. An Assessment of Land Capability for Water Quality Protection Using Buffers
Michael Dosskey
9. Modeling Hydrologic Response of Converting Annual Crops to Agroforestry
and other Perennial Cropping Systems: An Assessment of SWAT and HSPF Capabilities
Driss Ennaanay, Lara Aniskoff and Ken Brooks
10. Home Gardens in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico
Peter F. Ffolliott
11. Remote Sensing-Based Carbon Accounting in Silvopastural System of Southeastern
United States
Solomon Haile
12. Agroforestry Options for Ecological and Economic Recovery of Degraded
Lands on the Forest-Savanna Ecosystem of Guinea, West Africa
Jordan Kimball
13. Society of American Foresters: The Agroforestry Working Group
Shibu Jose, Charles Barden, Kome Onokpise, Bruce Wight and Terry Clark
14. Hybrid Poplar Establishment under Harsh Environmental and Edaphic Conditions
Kevin Lombard, Mick O’Neill, Dan Smeal, Rick Arnold and John Mexal
15. Yield and Maturation of Alfalfa in a Black Walnut Alley-Cropping Practice
Robert McGraw, Terrell Stamps and Marc Linit
16. The Agro-forestry Systems In West Africa: The Case of Nigeria
Edmund Merem
17. Silvopasture as an Approach to Reducing Nutrient Pollution from Pasturelands
in Florida
Gerard Michel
18. Agroforestry Systems with Native Tree Species in Misiones, Argentina:
Productive, Social and Environmental Services
Florencia Montagnini, Beatriz Eibl and Roberto Fernandez
19. The Effects of the Allelopathic Chemical Juglone on Hydroponically Grown
Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) and Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) Growth and Physiology
Kara Napolitano and Jose Shibu
20. Cocoa Production in Cameroon
Tcharbuahbokengo Nfinn
21. Goods From the Woods
Colleen Oestreich
22. Effect of Pine Straw Harvesting on Survival and Growth of Loblolly Pines
Dan Pote, Adrian Ares and Catalino Blanche
23. Adoption and Abandonment of Gum Arabic Agroforestry in Sudan
Afaf Rahim, Ruerd Ruben. and Ekko van Ierland
24. Multipurpose Native Trees of Guanajuato, México.
Teresita del R.L., Terrones-Rincón, Santa A. Ríos Ruíz,
Cristina Gonzáles-Sánchez
25. Diversification and improving productivity of mountain farming systems
through agroforestry practice in northwestern India
P.S. Thakur, Vaishnu Dutt, , Sandeep Sehgal, Raj Kumar
26. Tree, Grass and Crop Root Length Densities and Soil Water Content within
an Agroforestry Buffer System
Ranjith P. Udawatta, Stephen H. Anderson, Harold E. Garrett
27. Agroforestry Practices in the Sonora River Watershed, Mexico
Diego Valdez-Zamudio
28. Increasing Upland Bird Habitat Through Agroecosystems; Assessing the Economic
and Ecological Potential of a Hazel Shrubland Agroecosystem in Northeastern
Wisconsin
Patrick J. Weber |
| 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. |
AFTA members’ meeting (Centennial
Hall)
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| Wednesday, June 15 |
Field Trips (2 options):
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| 7:00 - 4:00 p.m. |
Field trip A:
South Central Minnesota: Agroforestry for protection and
watershed management in the heart of Minnesota’s farmland
Linda Meschke and Gary Wyatt, Extension Services, University
of Minnesota
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| 7:30 - 4:00 p.m. |
Field trip B:
Southeast Minnesota: Agroforestry systems and forest mangement in a diverse landscape
Tom Wegner and Angela Gupta, Extension Services, University of Minnesota
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