Tri-State Fruit and Vegetable Growers Symposium
Date: Friday, December 2nd, 2011 
Start: 12:00 pm End: 5:15 pm
Location: Stoney Creek Inn, Sioux City
Contact: Laura Kuennen, ISU Extension Regional Food Coordinator, (712) 276-2157, lkuennen@iastate.edu
Fruit and vegetable growers are invited to attend the Tri-State Fruit and Vegetable Growers Symposium on Friday, December 2 at Stoney Creek Inn, 300 Third Street, in Sioux City. Featured speakers include South Dakota State University forestry professor John Ball with an overview of specialty crops and Tim Vala of Vala’s Pumpkin Patch near Omaha providing marketing tips.
Growers can choose from a variety of fruit/vegetable production and marketing sessions led by University Extension horticulture specialists and experienced local growers. Topics include fruit trees, aronia berries, grapes, ethnic vegetable varieties, organic insect and pest control, and community supported agriculture strategies.
The symposium is planned by Flavors of Northwest Iowa in partnership extension services at Iowa State University, University of Nebraska and South Dakota State University. Flavors of Northwest Iowa participates in the Regional Food Systems Working Group.
Related information
Event brochure and registration [PDF]
Flavors of Northwest Iowa website
News release [ISU Extension and Outreach website]
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