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Events for: March 26, 2013


Event: Blueberry Spring Meeting & PEI Wild Blueberry Growers'' Assn. AGM
Date: Mar 26, 2013
Location: Howard Johnson Dutch Inn, Cornwall
Description: 

Time: 8:15 a.m.-3:15 p.m.

Registration: $20 (includes buffet lunch)

Contact:  Chris Jordan
Contact Phone: (902) 314-0816
Email: cwjordan@gov.pe.ca
Agenda on line: www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/af_agcal_BBagm.pdf

Event: PEI Agriculture Sector Council AGM
Date: Mar 26, 2013
Location: Howard Johnson Dutch Inn, Cornwall
Description: 

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Contact:  Ben Miller
Contact Phone: 892-1091
Email: ben@peiagsc.ca
Website: www.peiagsc.ca

Event: Grass Fed Beef Conference
Date(s): Mar 26, 2013 - Mar 27, 2013
Location: Holiday Inn, Truro, NS
Description: 

Speakers include:

  • Dr. Ron Gill - professor and livestock specialist from Texas A&M University
  • Dr. Ira Mandell - professor and animal scientist from the University of Guelph
  • Dr. Ed Rayburn - forage agronomist from West Virginia University
  • Dr. Ann Clark - professor from the University of Guelph (retired)

Topics include:

  • Feeding grass for success
  • Consumer drive for more grass-fed beef
  • Ensuring meat quality
  • Low stress cattle handling that maximizes profits
  • Cattle genetics

Registration

  • $25 for Nova Scotia producers
  • $75 for other registrants
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 15, 2013

Contact:  Gail
Contact Phone: 902-678-7722
Email: jwort@perennia.ca
Agenda on line: www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/af_agcal_nsbeef.pdf

Event: PEI Beekeepers' Association AGM
Date: Mar 26, 2013
Location: Howard Johnston Dutch Inn, Cornwall
Description: 

Details to follow. Guest speaker is Les Eccles, Project Lead for the Ontario Beekeepers' Association Tech Transfer Team. He will deliver two talks:

  1. Use and Benefit of Pollen Substitute in Pollination Colonies
  2. 20 Years of Ontario Bee Breeding: Success in Pest and Disease Resistant Stock

Contact:  David MacNearney
Contact Phone: (902) 838-4204
Agenda on line: www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/af_agcal_beeagm.pdf
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