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          NM Apple Growers  
			
          Conference 
          
          February 18, 2009 
			
            
			
         
			The New Mexico Annual Apple Growers 
			Conference is scheduled for February 18, 2009 at the Santa Fe County 
			Extension Office, Large Exhibit Hall, 3229 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, NM 
			from 8:30 A.M. until 3:00 PM.  A lunch will be provided by our 
			sponsor, NM Apple Council.  Following the conference we will 
			have the annual meeting of the NM Apple Council.  You may view 
			the agenda on our website: 
			
			Agenda   
            
			
            
			
			January 09  
			
			 
			
				  
				
					
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						 14-15  | 
						
						 South west Beef 
						Symposium Midland TX   | 
					 
					
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						15  | 
						
						 Water dialog 
						Meeting Albuquerque  | 
					 
					
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						 15-16 
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						NM Hay Conference Ruidoso NM 
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						22  | 
						
						 Wind Energy 
						Conference, Carlsbad, NM 6:00 pm Civic Center Anex
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						23   | 
						
						 Pecos Valley 
						Water users organization 9:30 Artesia Ag Science Center  | 
					 
					
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						 27-29  | 
						
						 NM Association 
						of Counties Winter conference Santa Fe   | 
					 
					
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						 28  | 
						
						 NM Cotton 
						Conference Ruidoso   | 
					 
					
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						 26-27  | 
						
						 NM Crop 
						Production meeting   | 
					 
					
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						 29-30  | 
						
						 Aerial 
						Applicators conference   | 
					 
					
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						 29-30
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						 Think Trees 
						Conference Albuquerque  | 
					 
				 
			 
			
			 
			
			 
			  
			
			 
			
			February 09  
			
				  
				
					
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						 Cotton Plow Down
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						2-3 
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						 New Mexico Chile 
						Conference, Las Cruces NM  
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						8-12 
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						 National 
						Extension Water conference  
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						18  | 
						
						 
						
						NM Apple Growers Conference, Santa Fe, NM (click 
						here)  | 
					 
					
						| 19  | 
						
						 Ag Fest Santa Fe
						 
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						| 24-25  | 
						
						 Ag Expo Portales 
						NM  
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						| 27-28  | 
						NM Organic farming Conference Las 
						Cruces  | 
					 
					
						| 27-28  | 
						NM Wine and Grape Conference, 
						Albuquerque | 
					 
					
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						to  
						Mar 1   | 
						2009 Water Conservation Conference is 
						"Watershed-Foodshed". The Expo is held at the Lujan 
						Building, Expo NM. Goal 
						is to provide up to 50 local growers and small 
						producers a 10 X 10 booth at the Expo at no cost to you. 
						Our conference is focusing on the importance of 
						growing local - eating local.  Please check
						
						www.xeriscapenm.com for our speaker list. 
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			March 09  
			  
			
				
					
						| Feb 28 
						
						to  
						Mar 1 
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						2009 Water Conservation Conference is 
						"Watershed-Foodshed". The Expo is held at the Lujan 
						Building, Expo NM. Goal 
						is to provide up to 50 local growers and small 
						producers a 10 X 10 booth at the Expo at no cost to you. 
						Our conference is focusing on the importance of 
						growing local - eating local.  Please check
						
						www.xeriscapenm.com for our speaker list. 
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						  NM Pecan 
						Conference, Las Cruces, NM   | 
					 
				 
			 
			  
			
			 
			
			April 09  
			  
			
				
					
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						 Irrigation 
						Workshop, Carlsbad, NM  | 
					 
					
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						 TBA  | 
						
						 Top Bar Hive 
						Beekeeping Workshop - Belen, NM.  A new Top Bar 
						Hive Bee-keeping Association is forming in the Mid-Rio 
						Grande Valley.  For more information
						
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			Fruit Notes 
			  
			The NM Apple Council will be publishing a 
			newsletter on a regular basis until NMSU hires a new fruit 
			specialist in Alcalde.  Ron Walser, is now at the Los Lunas 
			Experimental Station  and was publishing a newsletter called 
			the Fruit Notes.  Ron is an exceptional source of information 
			for the fruit industry.  If you have any questions for Ron you 
			may contact him by email at: ronaldw@nmsu.edu.   If 
			you would like a copy of the NM Apple Council newsletter or if you 
			would like to  be put on our mailing list: 
			Click Here. 
			  
			  
			
			Newsletter and Notices 
			  
			Charles A. Martin, (NMSU, Sustainable Agriculture 
			Science Center) publishes notices of events via e-mail and letter on 
			a regular basis for all farming related events. If you would like to 
			be put on his list you can contact him as follows: 
			  
			Charles A. Martin   NMSU Sustainable Agriculture Science Center  P.O. Box 159  Alcalde, NM 87511  505-852-4241  Fax: 505-852-2857  email: 
			
			cmartin@nmsu.edu 
			  
			  
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