Conference 
PROGRAM

MORNING SESSION - Thursday, February 9, 2012
	8:00		REGISTRATION AND TRADE SHOW / COFFEE
	8:45		Welcome Joe Brennan, Chairman, PNB
	9:00		"Food for Thought" for Marketing Table Potatoes Jeanne Cruikshank, Confucius Consulting, Halifax, NS
	9:35		Review of 2011 Growing Season - Weather and Late Blight Dave Wattie, DAAF, Wicklow, NB
	9:45		NB Potato Diseases Update Khalil Al-Mughrabi, DAAF, Wicklow, NB
	10:10		BREAK / TRADE SHOW
	10:40		Above and Below Ground Symptoms and Yield Loss Caused by PVY Strains in 8 Potato Cultivars Grown in a Field Situation Phil Hamm, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
	11:10		Impact of Best Management Practices on Spread of PVY in New Brunswick Seed Potato Fields Mathuresh Singh, ACS, Fredericton, NB
	11:40		NB Minister of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries Address Hon. Michael Olscamp, Minister of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries
	11:50		Sponsors and Product updates
	12:00		LUNCH
	13:00		Comedian Jimmy the Janitor

AFTERNOON SESSION - Thursday, February 9, 2012
	14:00		Agriculture Leadership Monique McTiernan, Atlantic  Agriculture Leadership Program Inc., Moncton, NB
	14:10		Confine® Research and Results Rick Peters, AAFC, Charlottetown, PE
	14:40		Efficacy of Fungicides Available in Canada Zenaida Ganga, Cavendish Farms, Summerside, PE
	15:00		BREAK / TRADE SHOW
	15:30		Spore Traps: An Innovative Concept in the Fight Against Late Blight Gilles Moreau, McCain Foods (Canada), Grand Falls, NB
	15:45		Alliance for Potato Research and Education Maureen Storey, Alliance for Potato Research and Education, McLean, VA
	16:05		Everything You Were Afraid to Ask About Lime Robert Coffin, Potato Consulting Services Inc., North Wiltshire, PE
	16:35		Diversifying Potato Farm Income: Energy and Bio-products Kevin Shiell, NBCC, Grand Falls NB
	16:45		CLOSING REMARKS and GROWER DOOR PRIZES Matt Hemphill, Executive Director, PNB