Listening Session Invitation
Specialty Crop Listening Session
When: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 (9:00 am – 2:30 pm) Travis Room
Meeting Location: San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk, 889 East Market Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205, 1-210-224-4555
OBJECTIVE: To interact with industry and state representatives, national
organizations or institutions, local producers, researchers and educators
or other groups that are interested in the issues with which the Specialty
Crop Committee is charged.
9:00 a.m. Introduction to the Specialty Crop Listening Session Dr. Walter Armbruster, Chair, Specialty Crop Committee, National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education,and Economics (NAREEE) Advisory Board
9:15 a.m. Opening Comments by Specialty Crop Committee Members
* James Lugg, President, TransFresh Corporation and EVP Fresh Express
* Matt McInerney, Executive Vice President, Western Growers
Association
* Jean-Mari Peltier, President, National Grape and Wine Initiative
9:40 a.m. Panel Challenges Facing Specialty Crop Production
* Ray Prewett, President, Citrus Mutual
* Cindy Wise, Executive Director, Texas Pecan Growers Assocation
* Roy Vannoy, President, Texas Fruit Growers Assocation
* Dacota Haselwood, Chief Governmental Affairs Officer, Texas Wine
and Grape Growers Association
10:40 a.m. BREAK
10: 55 a.m. Panel Challenges Facing Specialty Crop Production
(continued)
* Eddy D. Edmondson, President Texas Nursery & Landscape Association
* John Cosper, Executive Director, Turfgrass Producers of Texas
* Brad Stufflebeam, Home Sweet Farm
* J. Carnes, Sales/Vice President, Winter Garden Produce
12:00 p.m. LUNCH (Bowie Room)
12:45 p.m. Public Comments from the Floor
Q&A
Additional Committee Discussion
2:30 p.m. Listening Session Adjourned
Colette M. Wood
Acting Program Support Coordinator
NAREEE Advisory Board
USDA/Agricultural Research Service
5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Room 4-2294
Beltsville, MD 20705
Phone: 301-504-4657
Fax: 301-504-4624
Email: colette.wood@ars.usda.gov or colette.wood@ars.usda.gov
