6^th Annual symposium to be held on   January  8^th    from 9:00 -3:30 Central time (CST). 

The theme will be Climate Smart Agriculture: The Role of Agroforestry  covering topics  such as Perennial Grains; Climate-Smart by Design; Silvopasture: Creating Climate-Smart Pastoral Systems; Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Developing Climate-Smart Soybeans; Restoration Agriculture.  ( Please see attached flyer).

 Speakers include:    

Dr. Thomas Sauer,       Midwest Climate Hub, USDA  ARS

Dr. Lee DeHann,         The Land Institute

Janet Chappell,             North Carolina State University

Robert Kallenbach,     MU’s College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

Mark Shepard,            Restoration Agriculture Development

The symposium  is free and open to the public and can be viewed live on the web  through the following link:

                                               http://m.onsm.com/mvp/p.aspx?id=@morenet3

The symposium is sponsored by the Center for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri. Established in 1998, the UMCA  contributes to the science underlying agroforestry, the science and
practice of intensive land-use management combining trees with crops and livestock. Agroforestry practices help landowners to diversify products, markets and farm income; improve soil and water quality; sequester carbon, and reduce erosion, non-point source pollution and damage due to flooding; and mitigate climate change.