Agenda
Annual Meeting
Agenda
July 23-26
Columbia, Missouri
See the Joint Conference web page for the most up-to date information.
Agenda (PDF, 159 kb)
This program has been reviewed and is approved for professional CFE credits by the Society of American Foresters. Category 1-CF : 15.0 (7/23 = 1, 7/24 = 4.5, 7/25 = 6.5, 7/26 = 3).
Walnut Council/Northern Nut Growers Association/Chestnut Growers of America
2023 Meeting Agenda
(subject to change)
Sunday, 23 July
10:00 – 11:30 Walnut Council Foundation Board of Directors Meeting, Hampton Inn Columbia
at the University of Missouri (guests welcome)
12:30 – 3:30 Walnut Council Board of Directors Meeting, Hampton Inn (guests welcome)
3:30 – 7:00 Registration, Anheuser Busch Natural Resource Building (ABNR) Lobby
3:30 – 6:00 Set up Posters, Exhibits, and Silent Auction, ABNR Lobby and Room 123
4:30 – 6:00 Dinner TBD
5:45 – 7:00 Welcome Reception, ABNR Lobby
6:00 – 7:00 Poster Session, (see listing of potential posters on pg 4)
7:10 – 8:30 Show and Tell, ABNR Conservation Hall
7:10 – 7:20 Welcome, Mike Gold, Session Moderator
7:20 – 7:30 Charlie Novogradac, Construction and Operation of a Low-Cost Air Cleaner For Small Chestnut Orchards
7:30 – 7:40 Jeff Polfer, Abundant Harvests, Soil Health, Nutrients and Plant Health
7:40 – 7:50 Open
7:50 – 8:00 Bill Hammitt, Establishing Clover Cover Crops in Black Walnut Plantations
8:00 – 8:10 NNGA Cultivar Inventory Database
8:10 – 8:20 Rick Hartlieb, Setting Up a New Diversified Orchard with Hazelnuts and
Chestnuts
8:20 – 8:30 Mike Gold, Monday field day logistics
Monday, 24 July
There is an all-day tour at the HARF or choose one morning tour at HARF and afternoon at Walnut Council member Mike Trial’s property to tour timber management.
7:50 – 8:45 Travel on your own to Horticulture and Agroforestry Research FARM (HARF), 10 Research Center Road, New Franklin
8:45 – 9:00 Ron Revord, Welcome
2 different wagon tours and 1 walking tour concurrent, repeated during the day. (Black walnut will be discussed in tours 2 and 3, choose one tour before lunch)
9:00 – 11:00 Tour 1 (Wagon Near Loop): Chestnut Repository 1; Chestnut Cultivar Trial; and Chestnut Repository 2
Tour 2 (Wagon Far Loop): Northern Pecan Repository; Hazelnut Breeding Block; and Black Walnut Mapping Populations and Selection Trial
Tour 3 (Walking): Black Walnut Repository and Progeny Block; Precocious Swamp White Oak Planting; Hazelnut Selection and Cultivar Traits
11:00 – 12:30 Concurrent Demonstrations around Hay Barn: Chestnut, Pecan, and Walnut Harvesters; Electric Deer Fencing; Drones for Insecticide Applications; Orchard Irrigation Considerations; Elderberry Culture and Weed Management Trial; Grafting and Control Pollination videos
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch
12:15 – 1:00 Drive to Alternate Timber Management Field Tour at Mike Trial property, 301 North Highway UU, Columbia
1:15 – 1:30 Welcome at Mike Trial property field tour
1:30 – 4:00 Black Walnut Plantation Tour with topics to include:
- Small sawmill operations, demo/discussion of thinning a plantation and utilizing the cut trees as sawmill logs
- Removing fescue from plantations and replacing with cover crops or warm season grasses/forbs
- Invasive species control demo/discussion, removing woody invasives such as bush honeysuckle and autumn olive.
12:30 – 4:30 For those who stayed at HARF: HARF Tours 1, 2, and 3 repeat two times
4:00 – 5:00 Return to Columbia
5:30 – 7:00 Dinner on your own
7:00 – 7:30 Poster Session
7:30 – 9:30 Live Auction in ABNR Conservation Hall. Proceeds will be used to support tree related research and special projects.
Tuesday, 25 July
7:00 – 8:00 Coffee available in ABNR Lobby
7:45 – 8:15 Walnut Council Business Meeting, Agriculture Science Building
7:45 – 8:15 NNGA Business Meeting, ABNR 210
8:20 – 8:30 Technical Presentations: Welcome/Overview, Mike Gold, ABNR 210
8:30 – 9:15 Ron Revord, Keynote Presentation -Updates on UMCA Chestnut and Other Nut Tree Research
9:30 – 3:00 Companion Program, Meet in Lobby of Hampton Inn. Sites to be determined, lunch included with companion registration.
Concurrent Session B Presentations, Agriculture Sciences Building
Attendees can choose whichever session (A or B) or switch between sessions. Concurrent B are expected to be of most interest to Walnut Council members. See Concurrent session A listing below for sessions on chestnut, hazelnut, pecan, and pawpaw.
9:20 – 9:40 Thomas Goff – Current Status of the Walnut Resource
9:40 – 10:00 Brian Brookshire – Eastern Black Walnut, An Industry Perspective on Domestic and International Lumber and Log Markets
10:00 – 10:20 Q and A for Goff and Brookshire
10:20 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:00 Tim Martinson – Economics and the Walnut Council
11:00 – 11:20 Lenny Farlee – Timber Taxation and Expenses: Resources to Navigate
11:20 – 11:40 Joe Alley – NRCS Updates and New Cost-Sharing Opportunities
11:40 – 12:00 Q and A
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:20 Shaneka Lawson – Growth Patterns and Soil Suitability Studies in Juglans nigra and Quercus rubra L. plantations
1:20 – 1:40 Jerry Van Sambeek – Hardwood Fertilization for Timber and Nuts
1:40 – 2:00 Q and A
2:00 – 2:20 Break and Closing of the Silent Auction
2:20 – 2:40 Stephanie Adams/Fredric Miller – Oak Decline and Death in Illinois: What Role Does Phytophthora Play in Overall Tree Decline?
2:40 – 3:00 Bruce Moltzan– National Perspective on Forest Health Issues
3:00 – 3:20 Matt Ginzel – Hardwood Tree Improvement & Regeneration Center’s Strategic Responses To Forest Health Threats
3:20 – 3:40 Q and A
3:40 – 4:00 Ben Knapp/John Kabrick – Contributions of Hardwood Forest Management to Climate-smart Forestry
4:00 – 4:20 Brian Schweiss and Hank Stelzer – The White Oak Initiative Update
4:20 – 4:40 Lauren Pile Knapp – Controlling Invasive Plants and Grape Vines in Hardwood Plantings
4:40 – 5:00 Q and A
Concurrent Session A Presentations, ABNR Conservation Hall
This session on nut tree crops occurs concurrently with the walnut/forest management session. Attendees can choose whichever session they prefer or switch between sessions.
9:20 – 9:40 Jeanne-Romero-Severson, AIMS: Update on Chestnut Ancestry
9:40 – 10:00 Mike Nave, Cross Species Breeding for Eastern Chestnut Growers
10:00 – 10:20 Greg Miller, Grafts vs Seedling for Chestnut Production
10:20 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:00 Amy Miller, Our Experience with Oak Wilt in Our Chestnut Orchards
11:00 – 11:20 Seth Gillium, Success, Challenges, and Opportunities of Scaling Regenerative Agroforestry with Chestnut Trees
11:20-11:40 Louis Naeger, Planning for Farm Succession
11:40 – 12:00 Charlie Novogradac, Practical Tips, Cautions, Observations, Tried, and Yet to Be Ideas on Establishing Chestnut Orchards Organically
12:00- 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:10 Jesse Marksohn, The Case for Chestnut Flour: Early Research and Findings
1:10 – 2:00 Chestnut Marketing, Mike Gold, Moderator
Amy Miller – Route 9 Co-op; Roger Blackwell- New Era Chestnuts; Roger Smith-Prairie Groves Chestnut Growers; Debbie Milks – Chestnut Charlie’s Organic Nuts; Tom Wahl – Red Fern Farm; Dale Black – Chestnut Ridge of Pike County
2:00 – 2:20 Break and Closing of the Silent Auction
2:20 – 2:40 Thomas Molnar, An Update on New Cultivars from Rutgers Univ. and Strategies for Propagation
2:40 – 3:00 Dan Jacobs, Making Informed Decisions on Pollinizer Selection and Distribution Throughout a Hazelnut Orchard
3:00 – 3:20 Nick Meier, Breeding for Durable EFB Resistance Through the Hybrid Hazelnut Consortium
3:20 – 3:40 Jason Fischbach, Updates on Hazelnut Germplasm and Industry Development from the Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative
3:40 – 4:00 Warren Chatwin, Picturing Pecans: New Cultivar Releases and Modernizing the USDA ARS Pecan Breeding Program
4:00 – 4:20 Dan Shepherd, My Mistakes In 50 Years of Being a Pecan Farmer
4:20 – 4:40 Ron Powell and Neal Peterson, Pawpaw Culture
4:40 – 5:00 Rodney Dever, Who Needs Pawpaw Cultivars?
5:00 – 6:00 Silent auction bidders pick up items
6:15 – 7:00 Social with cash bar
6:30 – 6:45 Group Photo
7:00 – 8:00 Banquet, Brewer Field House
8:00 – 8:30 Keynote Speaker, Shawn Mehlenbacher
8:30 – 9:15 NNGA/Walnut Council/Chestnut Growers of America Announcements and Awards
Wednesday, 26 July
8:15 – 12:00 Session C Presentations, ABNR Conservation Hall
8:15 – 8:30 Announcements, Greg Miller, President, NNGA
8:30 – 9:20 Mark Coggeshall, Ron Revord, and Nick Meier, Past, Present, and Future of Black Walnut Breeding at the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry
9:20 – 9:40 Doug Wallace, Using NRCS Web Soil Survey for Evaluating and Developing Tree Plantings
9:40 – 10:00 Chung-Ho Lin, Exploring the Economic Opportunities and Health Benefits of Black Walnuts
10:00 – 10:20 Break
10:20 – 10:40 Bill Stouffer, Alley-cropping, Tree Management, and Nut Production
10:40 – 11:00 Josh Payne, Cover Crops and Soil Health Impacts for Orchards and Tree Plantings
11:00 – 11:20 Samantha Bosco, Updates on Efforts to Map the Demand for Agroforestry – Research Gaps, Bottlenecks, and Possible Solutions
11:20 – 11:40 Brian Hammons and Pierce Hollingsworth, Nut Markets for the ‘BOLD, WILD Walnut’ – Flavorful, Healthy & Sustainable.
11:40 – 12:00 Announcements/Closing
Poster Presentations, ABNR Lobby
Sunday July 23, 6:00-7:00 & Monday July 24, 7:00 -7:30 (posters subject to change)
- Casey Calvert and Tim Martinson, Forestry Co-ops: A Model to Consider
- Aziz Ebrahimi, et al. – Conserving Threatened Butternut Trees Using a Multi-nomics Approach
- Carrie J. Fearer and Anna Conrad, Walnut Witches’-broom Disease: A Threat to Butternut Restoration
- Max Huchteman, Weed Management Trials in Elderberry
- Caleb Kell, et al. – Mixed Nuts: Evaluating Field Performance and Improving Regeneration of Pure and Hybrid Butternut
- Sarah Phipps and Rosalee Knipps, Where are We on Thousand Cankers Disease?
- Shaneka Lawson, Swamp White Oak precocity
- Shaneka Lawson, Soil suitability and tree growth
- Amy Miller, Chestnut Anthracnose aka Blossom End Rot
- Tim Martinson and Greg Vogel – Walnut Council Impacts: Results of Survey of Number and Size of Walnut Plantation
- Jim McKenna, Blight Resistance of OxO American Chestnut in Indiana
- Jim McKenna, Bark Cracking of Walnut Trees - a Tough Nut to Crack
- Nolan Monaghan, Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping in Eastern Black Walnut
- Sydney Moore, Genotype x Environment Cultivar Trial
- Ron Revord, Ozark Chinquapin Conservation
- Andrew Thomas, et al., Shaking Black Walnut Trees for an Earlier and More Valuable Nut Harvest
- Michele Warmund and Jerry Van Sambeek, Improving walnut seed germination with GA 4+7 pre-stratification treatments