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Manitoba Potato Production Days

         

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012

5:00 TO 8:00 PM                   Manitoba Room

                                     Trade Show Set-up and Registration

 7:00 to 9:00 PM           Tavern United – Canad Inns

                                      Welcoming Icebreaker

 The Tavern United is the place to be starting at 7:00 pm.                                                                                                        

        Stop by to meet potato colleagues and enjoy the snacks provided.

Extras

Free fries offered Wednesday at 10:00 am and at 2:30 pm  

                       

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                                                                                               Sponsored by

Wednesday night at the Spuds and Suds Social 

                                                             Great food, drinks and magic provided by Dean Gunnarson

                                                                  

 

 

We are working hard to put together a excellent interesting agenda - please check back for updates and speaker and topic confirmations

Program Overview- Tentative

Tuesday, January 24th

12:00 pm

   Equipment set-up

5:00 pm

   Trade show set-up

5:00 pm to  8:00 pm

   Registration in the Manitoba Room

7:00 pm

   WELCOMING ICEBREAKER IN "TAVERN UNITED" in the Canad Inns

 

   Refreshments and Hors d'oerves
Wednesday, January 25th

8:00 am

   Registration
Continental Breakfast
Trade show opens
9:00 am   Opening Remarks and Welcome
9:10 am   Technical Presentations: 

Fumigation, what we have learned in Manitoba and hope to learn with Compost/fumigation trial - Mario Tenuta

Results of 2011 Soil Fumigation Studies on Potato- Neil Gudmestad
10:10 am   Refreshment break in the Trade show

10:35 am

   15 minute demo

Fertigation Demo - Agri Inject, Inc. with Arnold Page in the trade show area
      10:50 am   Keynote Presentation  

The North American Potato Industry - Does the Past Predict the Future?       - Frank Van Schaayk                                                   
11.45 am   Moving Forward:  Alliance for Potato Research and Education - Maureen Storey
12:15 pm   Buffet lunch
  1:45 pm   Technical Presentations:

An ever-changing picture:  update on the late blight pathogen strain ID program in Canada - Rick Peters

Evaluation of bed planting configuration for potato production - David Tarkalson

Supressing Fungicide-resistant Fusarium spp. Causing Potato Seed Piece Decay and Post-harvest Dry Rot - Rick Peters
3:05 pm   Refreshment Break
3:45 pm   Technical Presentations

Drainage Water Management Systems - the View from South of the Border - Bruce Shewfelt

Tile drainage/subirrigation systems for increasing potato yield while protecting the environment - R. Sri Ranjan

Drainage:  A Grower's Perspective - Wayne Derksen and Stan Wiebe
5:00 pm   Trade show ends for the day
5:30 pm   Spuds & Suds Social
   

Buffet and mouth watering potato  appetizers                                                                                           Entertainment: Dean Gunnnarson

sponsored by Bayer CropScience, Brenntag Canada & Dow AgroSciences
     
Thursday, January 26th
8:00 am   Registration
Continental breakfast
Trade show opens
9:00 am   Opening Remarks
9:10 am   Technical Presentations:

2012:  Flood Conditions in Manitoba - Phillip Mutulu

On-Farm Biosecurity:  The background, the basics and best practices - Tracy Shinners-Carnelley

Early Blight Resistance to Boscalid - Neil Gudmestad

 
10:20 am   Refreshment Break
10:45 am   15 minute demo    Fertigation Demo - Agri Inject, Inc. with Arnold Page in the trade show area
11:00 am   Technical Presentations:

Futurist  20/20 Foresight:  Making Informed Decisions for the Future - Bob Treadway
12:15 pm   Trade Show Break and Luncheon
1:00 pm   Banquet Luncheon featuring

Mario Tenuta - "Papas en Peru"

                                                                                                         
    Conference and trade show is over.  Thanks for attending.
 
 

 

JANUARY 25 & 26, 2012