The 106th Northern Nut Growers Conference will be held this July in LaCrosse! Register by July 1 and save. Register now at the NNGA website at  or go directly to the meeting registration website at: https://uwlax.ungerboeck.com/prod/emc00/register.aspx?OrgCode=10&EvtID=5084&AppCode=REG.

July 27-28, speakers from across North America will share their experience with a variety of nuts – chestnuts, hazelnuts, oaks, butternuts, hickory nuts, walnuts, even cashews. Sessions will cover breeding, crop management, marketing and business development.

We expect to draw 200 nut growers, sellers, and allied supply chain partners. Don’t miss this networking opportunity!

The program will feature sessions on running a nut business, given by business leaders in the field. Beth Barham will be traveling up from Missouri to talk about her work on geographic indication – that is, Taste of Place. See her academic article at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1814566

The tour organized for July 28th includes a hike through a native chestnut grove, a tour of Mark Shepard’s polyculture farm, and a look at the American Hazelnut Company’s processing facility. The tour ends with dinner at the Rooted Spoon.