Actual Training-Workshop Agenda for Natural Resource Professionals conducted in Lanesboro, MN

1. Agroforestry Training-Workshop for Natural Resource Professionals
Agenda
June 5, 2008
Lanesboro, MN
MORNING SESSION:
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-8:45 Welcome, Overview of the Principle and concept of Agroforestry
Speaker: Diomy Zamora, Assistant Extension Professor, University of Minnesota
Extension
8:45-9:15 Alley cropping as an alternative approach to enhancing ecological and economic
productivity
Speaker: Mike Demchik, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Steven Point
9:15-10:00 Silvopasture and forest farming agroforestry practices as approaches to increasing
landowners’ productivity, income and woodland management
Speaker: Dusty Walter, Agroforestry Technology Transfer Specialist, University of
Missouri - Center for Agroforestry
10:00-10:10 Break
10:10-10:40 Riparian Buffers/Implementing agroforestry concepts in the riparian forest buffer
standard.
Speaker: Ginger Kopp, State Staff Forester, NRCS, Minnesota
10:40:11:05 The role of agroforestry in biomass energy production
Speaker: Gregg Johnson, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
11:05-11:30 The role of Agroforestry in carbon sequestration
Cost and benefit analysis of agroforestry practices
Speaker: Dean Current, Program Director, Center for Integrated Natural Resources and
Agricultural Management (CINRAM), University of Minnesota
11:30-11:45 Agroforestry and Wildlife
Speaker: Dusty Walter, Agroforestry Technology Transfer Specialist, University of
Missouri – Center for Agroforestry
11:45-12:00 The cost-share programs for agroforestry
Speaker: Ginger Kopp, State Staff Forester, NRCS, Minnesota
LUNCH
12:10 Bus leaves to Caledonia, MN
Lunch will be served at the Bus (Box Lunch)

2. AFTERNOON SESSION – FIELD TOUR
1:10-2:15 Agroforestry site visits at Lea McEvilly’s farm and surrounding agroforestry areas
2: 15-3:15 Travel back to Eagle Bluff to visit the Badgersette Hazelnut Farm
3:15:4:00 Badgersette Hazelnut Farm tour
4:00 Adjourn