2025 Winter Meeting Agenda

 

8:00 – 8:45 Registration
8:45 – 9:00 Introduction & Welcome – Charles Cawley

9:00 – 10:00 Chuck Schuster

  - MDA Update, pesticides & nutrient management
10:00 – 10:15 Bill Langlotz, Superintendent, Farm & Garden, MD State Fair

 

10:15 – 10:30 Break

 

10:30 - 11:30 Dr. Rick Bates, Penn State University

 - Collaborative Fir Germplasm Evaluation: Can You Make Money With Turkish, Trojan, and/or Nordmann Fir?

11:30 – 12:00 Business meeting

 

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

 

1:30 - 2:00 Audrey Bloomfield, MDA Marketing
2:00 - 2:30 Nichole Cook, B.SW., J.D., LL.M
- Liability issues running a tree farm
2:30 – 3:00 Samantha Capaldo, Senior Legal Research Associate

 - Succession planning

3:15 – 4:00 Tree sales in 2024 – Growers roundtable

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