2008

WINTER INSTITUTE TO BE HELD

January 5, 2008 Hotel Mead , Wisconsin Rapids

451 East Grand Avenue 

2007 Maple Queen Holly Melander's last duties as the raffle prize announcer.

Thanks goes out to the product vendors, speakers and attendees of the 2008 Winter Institute in Wisconsin Rapids on January 5th for making it another institute to be remember.

 

 

Roundtables

1) Beginner syrup makers - Lloyd Franz

2) How's and why's of different ways of tapping your trees - Phil Gudgeon

3) Checking your density of maple syrup - Henry Grape

4) Creating greeting cards using maple designs and others - Marion Voelz & Miriam Durkey

5) Filling out your agricultural statistics report - Carrie Schneider, USDA Statistics

6) Invasive Species on a one-to-one discussion – Kelly Kerns (couldn't attend)

7) Marketing your maple products - Carl Rainey

8) Mel Raatz of R&R Assessing -

 
Mel Raatz answers questions regarding land assessment in relation to mapling and general agriculture classification.

The product vendor display room.

Carrie Schneider, Ag Statistician from the USDA Wisconsin Field Office in Madison converses with our WMSPA President Fred Hedmark Saturday afternoon. Call Carrie if you have questions about the recently mailed Ag survey that's due back in early February. (Her office is responsible for putting that out to you) Her ph. # is (800) 789-9277.

Lloyd Franz explains the intricacies of "beginners' instruction class."

Phil shows on-lookers the different ways and reasons for tapping your trees this spring.

Carl Rainey tackles the marketing questions head-on.

Marion Voelz and Miriam Durkey's "hot corner" of creative maple-themed greeting cards and other stationary.

Henry Grape fine-tunes the methodology of syrup density.

Updated Jan. 5, 2008