Actual Agroforestry Training-Workshop Agenda for Natural Resource Professionals held in Willmar, MN

1. Agroforestry Training-Workshop for Natural Resource Professionals
Agenda
March 20, 2008
Willmar, MN
8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:15 Welcome, Overview of the Principles and Concepts of Agroforestry
Speaker: Diomy Zamora, Assistant Extension Professor, University of Minnesota
Extension
9:15-9:45 Alley cropping as an alternative approach to enhancing ecological, economic
productivity
Speaker: Mike Demchik, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Steven
Point
9:45-10:15 Forest farming as an approach to increasing landowners’ productivity, income
and woodland management
Speaker: Dusty Walter, Research Agroforester, University of Missouri - Center
for Agroforestry
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Silvopasture agroforestry system as an approach to woodland management
Speaker: Dusty Walter, Agroforester, University of Missouri - Center for
Agroforestry
11:00-11:45 Riparian Buffers: Concepts and Applications
Speaker: Ken Brooks, Professor, University of Minnesota
Implementing Agroforestry Concepts in the Riparian Forest Buffers
Speaker: Ginger Kopp, State Staff Forester, NRCS, Minnesota
11:45-12:15 Design and principles of windbreak systems.
Speaker: Gary Wyatt, Extension Professor, University of Minnesota Extension
12:15-1:00 Lunch
Luncheon Topic: The role of agroforestry in carbon sequestration.
Speaker: Dean Current, Director, Center for Integrated Natural Resources and
Agricultural Management (CINRAM), University of Minnesota
1:00-1:30 The role of agroforestry in biomass energy production.
Speaker: Gregg Johnson, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
1:30-2:00 Agroforestry and Wildlife
Speaker: Dusty Walter, Research Agroforester, University of Missouri – Center
for Agroforestry

2. 2:00-2:30 Cost and benefit analysis of agroforestry practices
Speaker: Dean Current, Director, Center for Integrated Natural Resources and
Agricultural Management (CINRAM), University of Minnesota
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:15 The cost-share programs for agroforestry
Speaker: Paul Flynn, State Resource Conservationist, NRCS, Minnesota
3:15-4:00 CASE STUDY ANALYSIS EXERCISE
Enhancing collaboration among Agencies: An agroforestry case analysis exercise
Facilitators: Diomy Zamora, Assistant Extension Professor, University of
Minnesota Extension, and Jim Chamberlin, Soil and Water Conservation
District, Baxter, MN,
4:30 Adjourn