Updated: 25 May 1994
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* Events added since last edition
1994
August 4, 1994
Event: Fourth Annual Conference of the Leopold Center for
Sustainable Agriculture
Place: Scheman Continuing Education Building, Iowa State
University, Ames, Iowa
Contact: Leopold Center, 126 Soil Tilth Building, Iowa State
University, Ames, IA 50011-3120.
Phone: (515)294-3711
Sponsor: Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
August 5-7, 1994
Event: 20th Annual NOFA Summer Conference and Celebration of
Rural Life
Place: Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Contact: Julie Rawson, 411 Sheldon Road, Barre, MA 01005.
(508) 355-2853.
August 7-10, 1994
Event: "Agroforestry and Sustainable Systems"
Place: Fort Collins, Colorado
Contact: Kim Isaacson, Center for Semiarid Agroforestry, Rocky
Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, UNL East
Campus, Lincoln, NE 68583-0822. (402) 437-5178.
August 7-9, 1994
Event: "Catch the Conservation Wave," the 49th annual meeting
and expo of the Soil and Water Conservation Society
Place: Waterside Convention Center, Norfolk, Virginia
Contact: Call 1-800-THE-SOIL
Sponsor: The Soil and Water Conservation Society
August 10-12, 1994
*Event: Management Intensive Grazing Workshop
Place: Linneus, Missouri
Contact: Forage Systems Research Center, Rt. 1., Box 80,
Linneus, MO 64653.
Phone: (816) 895-5121
Sponsor: Missouri Alternatives Center, University Extension
August 13, 1994
*Event: Center for Rural Affairs Annual Meeting
Place: Adams County Fairgrounds, Hastings, Nebraska
Contact: Attn: Jan, Center for Rural Affairs, Box 406,
Walthill, NE 68067. Phone: (402) 846-5428
August 18-20, 1994
Event: WRCC-67 Sustainable Agriculture meeting for the Western
Region.
Place: Cheyenne, WY.
Contact: David Granatstein, Washington State University, at
(509) 663-8181 x.222.
August 13-21, 1994
Event: International Conference on Organic and Sustainable
Agriculture
Place: Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, Peoples'
Republic of China
Contact: Mike Rennekar, Director, Agriculture Programs, Citizen
Ambassador Program, Dwight D. Eisenhower Building,
Spokane, WA 99202. Phone: (509) 534-0430.
FAX: (509) 534-5245.
August 26, 1994
*Event: Second Annual Western Kansas Organic Farm Tour
Place: Marienthal, Kansas
Contact: Allan Moody. Phone: (316) 379-4472
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.
Phone: 91-1662-73721, ext. 4268. FAX: 91-1662-73552.
Sponsor: Indian Society of Allelopathy
September 17, 1994
Event: Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association (MOFFA)
Fall Field Day
Place: Accokeek Foundation Farm and Colonial Garden
Contact: Skip Kaufman, Accokeek Foundation Farm and Colonial
Garden, 3400 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, MD.
Phone: (301) 283-2113.
September 18-21, 1994
Event: Sustainability of Range Livestock Production Systems in
the West
Place: Billings, Montana
Contact: Jack Riesselman, 525 Leon Johnson, Montana State
University, Bozeman, MT 59717.
Phone: (406) 994-5149.
September 18, 1994
Event: New Jersey's Third Organic County Fair
Place: Pennington, New Jersey
Contact: (609) 737-6848
Sponsor: Northeast Organic Farming Association
September 21-23, 1994
*Event: The National Rural Families Conference
Place: Manhattan, Kansas
Contact: Steve Bollman, (913) 532-6984 or Charlie Griffin,
(913) 532-6985
October 12-14, 1994
*Event: Management Intensive Grazing Workshop
Place: Linneus, Missouri
Contact: Forage Systems Research Center, Rt. 1., Box 80,
Linneus, MO 64653.
Phone: (816) 895-5121
Sponsor: Missouri Alternatives Center, University Extension
October 13-17, 1994
Event: Seeds of Hope: The Arctic to Amazonia Congress on
Community and Sustainable Forestry
Contact: Erik van Lennep, email: arc2amaz@igc.apc.org.
October 19-21, 1994
*Event: 3rd Annual Better Composting School
Place: Ramada Inn, Hanover, Maryland
Contact: (301) 405-4356
Sponsor: Cooperative Extension Service, Department of
Horticulture, Department of Agricultural Engineering,
University of Maryland at College Park
October 23-31, 1994
Event: 1994 International Sustainable Agriculture and Food
Security Week.
Place: Washington, DC
Contact: Thomas Forster, NGO Working Group on Sustainable
Agriculture. Phone: (808) 737-0300. Internet:
tforster@igc.apc.org. Or Linda Elswick, WSAA, 1331
Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 907 North, Washington, DC
20004. Phone: (202) 347-0637.
Internet: wsaa@igc.apc.org
October 24-28, 1994
*Event: "Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological
Economics"
Place: San Jose, Costa Rica.
Contact: Amon Z. Mattee or Thierry Lasalle, Department of
Agricultural Education and Extension, Skoine University
of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania.
November 4th-5th, 1994
*Event: 20th Anniversary, Seattle Tilth: "Sustaining the City,
Nurturing the People and the Land"
Place: Seattle, Washington
Contact: Seattle Tilth, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103.
Phone: (206) 633-0451
Sponsor: Seattle Tilth
November 10th, 1994
*Event: 20th Anniversary, Portland Tilth
Place: Portland, Oregon
Contact: Oregon Tilth, PO Box 3588, Portland, OR 97208.
Phone: (503) 285-8279. FAX: (503) 289-4179.
November 7-10, 1994
Event: "Conservation and Equitable Growth: The Challenge for
Farming Systems." Asian Farming Systems Symposium, 1994
Place: Manila, The Philippines
Contact: Symposium Coordinator, AFSS, PO Box 70, Peradeniya, Sri
Lanka. Phone: +94 (8) 88081/88206.
FAX: +94 (8) 32817/88206/32517.
November 11-13, 1994
Event: "Telling the Story: Celebrating Tilth's First Twenty
Years"
Place: Edgefield Manor, near Portland, Oregon
Contact: Tilth's 20th Anniversary, PO Box 3588,
Portland, OR 97208. Phone: (503) 285-8279.
November 12, 1994
Event: Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association (MOFFA)
Annual Meeting
Place: MDA Headquarters Bldg., Annapolis, MD
Contact: MOFFA, 6201 Harley Road, Middletown, MD 21769.
Phone: (301) 371-4814.
November 16-18, 1994
*Event: Agroecologia-Sostenibilidad Educacion
Place: Universidad Autonoma San Louis Potosi, Mexico
Contact: Escuela de Agronomia, UASLP, Apartado Postal F-2263,
San Louis Potosi, SLP CP 78321, Mexico
November 18-19, 1994
*Event: 5th Annual Rural Women's Conference: "Holding It
Together"
Place: First Presbyterian Church, Hutchinson, Kansas
Contact: Char Hinton, FACTS Office, 1-800-532-3276 or Linda
Hessman, Rural Life Office, (316) 227-1500.
Sponsor: Farmers Assistance, Counceling and Training Program
(FACTS), Interfaith Rural Life Committee of Kansas
Ecumenical Ministries and the Kansas Rural Center
November 21-25, 1994
*Event: Systems-Oriented Research in Agriculture and Rural
Development
Place: Montpellier, France
Contact: Secretariat of the Symposium: Systems-Oriented
Research in Agriculture and Development. BP 5035,
34032 Montpellier cedex 01, France.
Phone: (33) 67 61 71 85. FAX: (33) 67 61 71 86.
Internet: Sympo94@montp.cirad.fr
November 21-25, 1994
Event: Systems-Oriented Research in Agriculture and Rural
Development
Place: Montpellier, France
Contact: Ms. Ann Lichens-Park, NBAP. Phone: (202) 401-4892.
FAX: (202) 401-4888. OR Ms. Anne-Marie Seng-Sourinho,
Direction Scientifique, CIRAD-SAR. Phone: 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.
Phone: (61-7) 365-2062. FAX: (61-7) 365-1188.
Sponsor: Department of Agriculture, The University of
Queensland.
December 11-16, 1994
Event: 10th International Organic Agriculture IFOAM Conference
Place: Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand
Contact: IFOAM Conference, Centre for Continuing Education,
PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Phone: (64) (3) 325-2811. FAX: (64) (3) 325-2944.
December 14, 1994
*Event: Fertilizer Research and Education Program Annual
Conference
Place: Kearny Agricultural Center, Parlier, California
Contact: Jacques Franco, FREP, California Department of Food and
Agriculture, PO Box 942871, Sacramento, CA 94271-0001.
Phone: (916) 653-5340.
December 22-25, 1994
*Event: Prairie Forum/Community Futures, '94
Place: Victoria Inn, Brandon, Manitoba.
Contact: Joy Dornian, Conference Coordinator,
WESTARC Group #1 - 723 Rosser Ave Brandon
MB Canada. Phone: (204) 729-3451.
FAX: (204) 727-7555.
1995
January 25-28, 1995
Event: 15th Annual Eco Farm Conference:
"Seeds of Sustainability...Planting Our Future"
Place: Asilomar, California
Contact: Committee for Sustainable Agriculture, P. O. Box 838,
San Martin, CA 95046-0838
February 23-24, 1995
*Event: Conference on Nitrogen and Water
Place: Everett, Washington at the Everett Pacific Hotel
Contact: Ed Adams, WSU Cooperative Extension - Spokane 601 W
First Avenue,Spokane WA 99204-0399.
Phone: (509) 458-3580. Stephen Cox, United States
Geological Survey, 1201 Pacific Avenue,
Tacoma WA 98402. Phone: (206)593-6510.
Sponsor: Washington State University Cooperative Extension,
Washington State Department of Ecology, Washington
State Department of Health, BC Environment, and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
February 26-28, 1995
*Event: California Farm Conference
Place: Radisson Hotel, Sacramento, California
Contact: Small Farm Center, University of California-Davis,
Davis, CA 95616
May 10-11, 1995
*Event: "Planning for a Sustainable Future: The Case of the
North American Great Plains"
Place: Lincoln, Nebraska
Contact: Dr. Donald Wilhite, Director, International Drought
Information Center,
PO Box 830728, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Lincoln, NE 68583-0728
Phone: (402) 472-6707. FAX: (402) 472-6614.
Internet: agme002@unlvm.unl.edu
Sponsor: Environment Canada, NOAA, University of Nebraska-
Lincoln
June 11-14, 1995
Event: "Sustainable Aquaculture, '95"
Place: Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: Narendra Saxena. Phone: (808) 956-6163.
FAX: (808) 956-2580.
Internet: saxena@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
June 21-25, 1995
*Event: Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment
Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: Demetri Kantarelis, FAX: (508) 799-4502 or
Internet: dkantar@eve.assumption.edu
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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 (After March 1,
1994)
Steve Waller, Coordinator Phil Rassmussen, Coordinator
Agriculture Hall Ag Systems Technology
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln Utah State University
Lincoln, NE 68583-0704 Logan, UT 84322-2300
(402) 472-2973 (801) 750-2230
Internet: agdn009@unlvm.unl.edu Internet:
soilcomp@cc.usu.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
January 17, 1994: Deadline for receiving full proposal
February 1, 1994 Producer-Initiated Grant Applications
Available
March 7-11, 1994: Combined Administrative
Council/Technical Committee meets to
evaluate proposals
May 1, 1994 Producer-Initiated Grant Applications
Due. No FAXed applications accepted.
June 27-29, 1994 Administrative Council Meeting, to conduct
ongoing programming and review producer
grants
WESTERN REGION
January 25-26,1994 Technical Review Panel to meet
March 3-4, 1994 Administrative Council to meet
August 22 -26, 1994 Strategic Planning Meeting
NORTHEAST REGION
Proposed Schedule for FY 1994
January 19, 1994 Deadline for submitting proposals to
the regional coordinator's office
January 26, 1994 Deadline for submitting Farmer/Grower
proposals to regional coordinator's
office
March 19-22, 1994 Technical committee meets to evaluate
proposals for recommendation to the
administrative council
March 22-23, 1994 Administrative council meets to
consider recommended projects and
allocate funds
Early April, 1994 Grant applicants will be notified about
funding decisions
July 27, 1994 Northeast RegionSARE/ACE Administrative
Council Meeting, at the Holiday Inn at the
Bradley International Airport,WindsorLocks,
Conn.
July 27-28,1994 Northeast Region Sustainable Agriculture Farm
Tour. We will visit 6 farm and community
projects in Connecticut, Massachusetts and
Vermont where people are working to create a
more sustainable food and agricultural system.
SOUTHERN REGION
January 31-
February 4, 1994 Administrative Council and Technical
Committee Meetings
February, 1994 Notification of status of proposals and
producer initiated grants
February, 1994 Initiate negotiation with project
coordinators of successful proposals
March, 1994 Newsletter
Develop Plan of Work for submission to
USDA-CSRS and EPA
Release Call for Proposal for Regional
Training Consortium/Network
Release Call for Proposal for Regional
Training Projects
April, 1994 Submit Plan of Work to USDA-CSRS and
EPA.
April, 1994 UGA issue subcontracts to project
coordinators
May, 1994 Regional Training Consortium/Network
proposal due.
Regional Training Projects proposal due.
June 13-15, 1994 Regional Administrative Council Meeting
June, 1994 Newsletter
Release 1995 Call for SARE/ACE
Preproposal
August, 1994 SARE/ACE Preproposals due at the Host
Consortium
September, 1994 Invitation for full SARE/ACE Proposal
October, 1994 Newsletter
Release Call for Producer-Initiated
Grants
December, 1994 Full Proposal due at the Host Consortium
Producer-Initiated Grants due at Host
Consortium