Production Conference - Tuesday Morning

Tuesday, January 5, 2010: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom (Sheraton New Orleans)
Presiding:
Jon W. Hardwick
Organizer:
Bill Robertson
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks - Jon W. Hardwick, Chairman, National Cotton Council, Newellton, LA
8:05 AM
Welcome - Mike Strain, DVM, Commissioner of Agriculture & Forestry, Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry, Baton Rouge, LA
8:15 AM
National Cotton Council Report
Jon W. Hardwick, Chairman, National Cotton Council
8:30 AM
8:50 AM
9:05 AM
Market Challenges
Wallace L. Darneille, Plains Cotton Cooperative Association
9:30 AM
Conservation Programs
Jimmy Webb, Producer; Robbie Minnich, National Cotton Council
9:40 AM
Emerging Insect Issues
Jeff Gore, Mississippi State University, DREC
10:00 AM
Break
10:50 AM
Value of Transgenics Panel - Moderator - Don Parker, National Cotton Council, Cordova, TN
11:11 AM
Value of Transgenics: Weed Management
A. Stanley Culpepper, University of Georgia; Larry E. Steckel, University of Tennessee
11:41 AM
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