Growing Black Locust as a Timber Cash Crop in the Northeast

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Growing Black Locust as a Timber Cash Crop in the Northeast

Time: October 20, 2017 from 10am to 4:30pm
Location: Big Flats, NY
Event Type: conference
Latest Activity: Nov 16, 2017

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Join us for a special 1-day conference to explore the potential and methods for cultivating Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) profitably and successfully

Date & location:

 

  • ·         USDA NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center

 3266 State Route 352; Big Flats, NY 14814

 

  • ·         Friday, October 20th, 2017 from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm. Registration starting at 9:30 am. 

 

For full agenda and to register by Monday, October 16th please visit: https://goo.gl/forms/rAc030HqL3FH6lvw1  

 

Cost is $20 (pay at the door) and includes a hot lunch and a Black Locust seedling grown from an improved seed orchard. 

 

Please dress for the weather for an afternoon tour.

 

For more information or any special accommodations, please contact Brett Chedzoy at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County by phone: (607) 535-7161 or email: bjc226@cornell.edu  

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Comment Wall

Comment by Travis Meier on October 17, 2017 at 6:28pm
Is there any chance the audio for this can be made available? I would be glad to pay for it.
Comment by Brett Chedzoy on October 17, 2017 at 9:47pm

I hope to record the presentations, but not sure it's going to work until we try it.  Any materials or recordings will be made available here.

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