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Improving Perennial Plants for Food and Bioenergy, Inc. a non-profit corporation based in Richmond, Utah with research locations throughout Northern Utah and Southern Idaho is hosting the 102nd annual Northern Nut Growers Meeting at Utah State University July 17-21, 2011.
The Northern Nut Growers Association, Inc. (NNGA) is a national non-profit organization with members throughout the US and 15 foreign countries founded in 1911 to share information on nut tree growing.
Our members include beginning nut culturists, farmers, amateur and commercial nut growers, experiment station workers, horticultural teachers and scientists, nut tree breeders, nurserypeople, and foresters.
The NNGA membership meets at a different site once a year, generally in July or August. We visit local amateur and commercial orchards, experimental and research sites; nurseries and nut processing plants. There are lectures on all aspects of growing nut trees for the hobbyist and for the commercial nut grower.
Both amateurs and professional experts are always on hand to share their knowledge and experience. There are demonstrations of grafting, advice on which nut cultivars to choose for individual climate and soil condition, nut evaluations and displays of equipment and new products.
Improving Perennial Plants for Food and Bioenergy (IPPFBE) is a non-profit corporation. We believe that there is great unexploited potential to develop perennial crops for the sustainable production of food and bioenergy on marginal cropland, rangeland and steep, sloping land or on fragile soils—land that is currently unproductive.
Further, we feel that the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a resource to harvest with trees, in order to enhance the world environment. We are breeding many different species of trees, shrubs and grasses at our research locations, selecting for high, sustainable yields, frost tolerance, drought tolerance and disease and pest resistance.
We have planted over 50,000 trees for evaluation, selection and breeding. Our results have been very encouraging, and we move ahead with enthusiasm. We hope these perennial crops will produce much of the added food, timber, fuel and fiber needed to feed, house and supply energy to the world's poor and hungry, through edible landscapes and commercial Industries.
Our board members include: Dr. Reed Funk, Chairman, Tim Ford, President, Carol Peterson, Vice President, Dr. Clarence Funk, Secretary/Treasurer, Dr. Thomas Molnar, and Jeff Johnson. Visit us on the web at: www.ippfbe.org.
It is our privilege and pleasure to assist in hosting the 102nd Annual Conference of the Northern Nut Growers Association.
Please visit the meeting web site www.nngautah.usu.edu for more information on the meeting program and registration.
Written by: Larry A. Sagers Extension Horticultural Specialist Utah State University Thanksgiving Point Office
