Updated: November 22, 1993
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Farming Systems Information Center
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* Events added since last edition
November 10-17, 1993
Event: Ranching for Profit School
Place: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Contact: Elaine Kelly, 7719 Rio Grande Blvd., NW,
Albuquerque, NM 87107. (505) 898-7417 or
(505) 821-4214.
November 12-14, 1993
Event: The 8th Annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference
Place: Mission Valley Inn, Raleigh, North Carolina
Contact: For information about tradeshow space reservations,
call Tom Sabel, (919) 836-8944. For more information
about the conference, contact Dr. Richard McDonald,
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
(919) 733-3610, or Keith Baldwin, North Carolina
Cooperative Extension Service (919) 542-8202.
Sponsor: The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association.
November 16, 1993
*Event: The first state-wide meeting of the Mississippi
Sustainable Agricultural Council
Place: R & D Center in Jackson, Mississippi.
Contact: Wayne Houston at P. O. Box 9649, Mississippi
State, MS 39762 or phone (601)325-2701 or
Internet: wayneh@mces.msstate.edu
November 18, 1994
*Event: "Changes and Choices for Agriculture and Rural
Communities"
Place: Robert Loost Continuing Education Center, Iowa Western
Community College, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Contact: Rich Pirog, Education Coordinator, Leopold Center for
Sustainable Agriculture, 126 Soil Tilth Building,
Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3120.
Phone: (515) 294-3711. FAX: (515) 294-9696.
Sponsor: Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD);
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture; Iowa
State University Extension; Council Bluffs
Chamber of Commerce.
December 1-3, 1993
*Event: GrassFarmer '93 North America
Place: Coliseum Ramada Inn, Jackson, MS
Contact: Carolyn Thornton, (601) 264-8277.
Sponsor: The Stockman Grassfarmer
December 1-4, 1993
*Event: First International Symposium and Third National
Conference on Sustainable Agriculture
Place: CEICADAR, (Center for Teaching, Research and Training
for Agricultural Regional Development),Colegio de
Postgraduados Puebla, Puebla, MEXICO
Contact: CEICADAR, Km. 125.5 Carretera Federal Mexico-Puebla,
Apdo. Postal I-12 Colonia La Libertad C. P. 72130
Puebla, Pue. MEXICO
Tel. (91) (22) 48-00-88 or 48-09-78, 48-05-42;
Fax (91) (22) 49-39-95. Attention: M.C. J. Francisco
Escobedo Castillo or M.C. Filemon Parra Inzunza.
December 4-5, 1993
Event: Kick Off Meeting for the New Western SAWG
Place: Reno, Nevada
Contact: Paul Reichert, AERO, (406) 443-7272.
December 6, 1993
*Event: Community-Supported Agriculture: a New Marketing
Opportunity is a one-day workshop and tour
Place: University of California-Davis
Contact: Gail Feenstra, UC SAREP, (916) 752-8408.
Sponsors: UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program
(SAREP), the UC Small Farm Center, the Community
Alliance with Family Farmers and UC Cooperative
Extension.
December 8, 1993
Event: Kerr Center Open House
Place: Poteau, Oklahoma.
Contact: Lara Ervin, KCSA, P. O. Box 588, Poteau, OK 74953.
(918) 647-9123.
Sponsor: Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Inc.
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1994
January 5-12, 1994
Event: Ranching for Profit School
Place: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Contact: Elaine Kelly, 7719 Rio Grande Blvd., NW,
Albuquerque, NM 87107. (505) 898-7417 or
(505) 821-4214.
January 7-8, 1994
*Event: The Oklahoma Horticulture Industries Show
Place: Northeast Campus of Tulsa Junior College, Tulsa,
Oklahoma
Contact: Lara Ervin, KCSA, P. O. Box 588, Poteau, OK 74953.
(918) 647-9123.
Sponsor: Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Inc.
January 9-11, 1994
Event: National Farmers' Direct Marketing Association
Conference.
Place: St. Charles, Illinois
Contact: Missouri Department of Agriculture, (314) 751-6807.
January 18-20, 1994
*Event: 1994 New York State Direct Marketing Conference: "From
a Customer's Viewpoint."
Place: Syracuse Sheraton Inn, Syracuse, New York.
Contact: Monika Crispin, Cornell Cooperative Extension of
Tompkins County, (607) 692-2292.
Sponsor: The New York State Farmers' Direct Marketers
Association.
January 20-23, 1994
Event: 14th Annual Ecological Farming Conference
Place: Asilomar Conference Center, Montery, California
Contact: Committee for Sustainable Agriculture, (916) 756-6967.
January 30-February 1, 1994
Event: Midwest Regional Grape and Wine Conference.
Place: Tan-Tar-A, Lake of the Ozarks, in Missouri.
Contact: Missouri Department of Agriculture. (314) 751-6807
February 4-6, 1994
Event: Farm Conference, '94
Place: Doubletree Hotel, Ventura, California
Contact: Lynn Bagley, Marin County Farmers' Market, 1114 Irwin
Street San Rafael, CA 94901. (415) 456-3276.
February 14 and 15, 1994
*Event: Sustainable Agriculture: The Quiet Revolution
Place: Earl Brown Center on the St. Paul Campus of the
University of Minnesota.
Contact: Philip O. Larsen, Department of Plant Pathology,
University of Minnesota 1991 Upper Buford Circle St.
Paul, MN 55108. Phone (612) 625-1999 or
(612) 625-8200 ; FAX [612] 625-9728
Email address: phill@puccini.crl.umn.edu
Sponsor: Minnesota Extension Service and College of
Agriculture, University of Minnesota; W.K.Kellogg
Foundation; Cenex/Land O'Lakes; Minnesota
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture; and Cargill,
Inc., Fertilizer Division.
February 18-19, 1994
Event: 6th Annual Farming for Profit and Stewardship
Conference.
Place: Columbia River Red Lion Hotel, near Jantzen Beach,
Portland, Oregon.
Contact: John Luna, Oregon State University Horticulture
Department, AGLS 4017, Corvallis, OR 97331-7304.
(503) 737-5430.
March 4-5, 1994
*Event: Sixth Annual Transitions Farmers Conference
Place: Auburn, New York
Contact: Farming Alternatives Program, (607) 255-9832
Sponsor: Cornell Farming Alternatives Program, American
Agriculturist Magazine, New Farm Magazine, New York
State Department of Agriculture and Markets and New
York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, among
others.
April 11-16, 1994
*Event: Organic Coffee Production
Place: Tapachula/Chiapas Mexico
Contact: AMAE c/o Jose Dardon Hernandez, Calle Central
Pontiente No. 14-A Tapachula, Chiapas MEXICO, CP 30700
Tel: +52-962-51682. Fax: +52-962-60455
April 19-22, 1994
Event: Second National IPM Symposium/Workshop
Place: Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Contact: Ronald J. Kuhr, Department of Entomology, Box 7613,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
27695-7613.
May 30 to June 24 1994
*Event: Legumes in Cropping Systems of the Tropics and
Subtropics
Place: Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany
Contact: The Course Coordinator, Centre for Agriculture in the
Tropics and Subtropics (790), University of Hohenheim,
70593 Stuttgart, Germany; tel: +49 (0711) 459-3742;
Fax: +49 (0711) 459-3315; Telex: 722 959 UNIHO-D.
June 9-12, 1994
*Event: A Conference on Cuisine, Agriculture, and Social Change
Place: Westward Look Resort, Tucson, Arizona
Contact: Ann Tinsley, Dept. of Nutritional
Sciences, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721
Sponsor: The Agriculture, Food and Human Values
Society and the Association for the Study of Food and
Society
September 6-8, 1994
Event: Second National Symposium, "Allelopathy in Sustainable
Agriculture, Forestry and Environment"
Place: J. N. Vyas University, Jodhpur-342 001, Rajasthan,
India
Contact: Dr. Shamsher S. Narwal, Organizing Secretary,
Department of Agronomy, CCS Haryana Agriculture
University, Hisar-125 004, Haryana, India.
Voice: 91-1662-73721, ext. 4268. FAX: 91-1662-73552.
Sponsor: Indian Society of Allelopathy
November 21-25, 1994
Event: Systems-Oriented Research in Agriculture and Rural
Development
Place: Montpellier, France
Contact: Ms. Ann Lichens-Park, NBAP. Voice: (202) 401-4892.
FAX: (202) 401-4888. OR Ms. Anne-Marie Seng-Sourinho,
Direction Scientifique, CIRAD-SAR. Voice: 67617185.
FAX: 67617186.
November/December 1994
*Event: 3rd International Course on Fodder Tree
Legumes-Multipurpose Species for Agriculture
Place: Queensland, Australia
Contact: Dr. R.C. Gutteridge or Dr. H.M. Shelton, Fodder Tree
Legumes, Department of Agriculture, University of
Queensland, Queensland, 4072 Australia.
Voice: (61-7) 365-2062. FAX: (61-7) 365-1188.
Sponsor: Department of Agriculture, The University of
Queensland.
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APPENDIX
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
Regional Research Grants Schedules
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
program is a continuation of what was formerly known as LISA.
Grants are awarded on a competitive basis for research and
educational projects in sustainable agriculture.
Administration of the program takes place through four
regional centers, each of which has a separate schedule for
its call for proposals and other deadlines. The schedules
will be included in this calendar as they become available.
Following are the addresses of the Regional centers:
North Central Region Western Region
Steve Waller, Coordinator David Schlegel, Coordinator
Agriculture Hall Office of the Vice Pres., DANR
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln University of California
Lincoln, NE 68583-0704 Oakland, CA 94612-3560
(402) 472-2973 (510) 987-0029
Internet: agdn009@unlv. Internet: danrdsx@uccvma.ucop.edu
unl.edu
Northeast Region Southern Region
Frederick R. Magdoff, Gerald F. Arkin, Coordinator
Coordinator Agriculture Experiment Station
Dept. of Plant & Soil Griffen, GA 30223-1797
Science (404) 228-7263
University of Vermont Internet:dirgrf@gaes.griffin.
Burlington, VT 05405 peachnet.edu
(802) 656-2630
Internet: bholtzma@moose.uvm.edu
NORTH CENTRAL REGION
November 18-20, 1993: Combined Administrative
Council/Technical Committee meeting,
St. Louis, MO
November 25, 1993: Invitation to submit full proposal
January 17, 1994: Deadline for receiving full proposal
March 7-11, 1994: Combined Administrative
Council/Technical Committee meets to
evaluate proposals
WESTERN REGION
Week of January 10,1994 Technical Review Panel to meet
February 22-24, 1994 Administrative Council to meet
August 22 -26, 1994 Strategic Planning Meeting
NORTHEAST REGION
Proposed Schedule for FY 1994
Early October 1993: Request for Proposals sent to people
interested in the SARE Program.
Middle January, 1994: Deadline for submitting proposals to
the regional coordinator's office.
March 20-25, 1994: Technical committee meets to evaluate
(approx.) proposals for recommendation
to the administrative council.
Early April, 1994: Grant applicants will be notified about
funding decisions.
SOUTHERN REGION
Proposed Schedule for FY-1994
December 10, 1993 Full proposals due
January 24-28, 1994 SARE/ACE Administrative
Council/Technical Committee Meeting
February 28, 1994 Investigators notified of status of
proposals. Producers notified of
status of proposals