Potato Conference this week; Spokane Ag Show next week
Farm and Ranch January 25, 2010 The Washington Oregon Potato Conference and Trade begins tomorrow in Kennewick at the Three Rivers Convention Center. This is the first time the two states have held a joint conference. Conference board members anticipate two-thousand participants for the three-day event. Admission is $5 at the door. Coming up next week is the 2010 Spokane Ag Expo and Pacific Northwest Farm Forum. It runs February 2nd through the 4th at the Spokane Convention Center Complex. Billed as the largest farm machinery show in the Inland Northwest, the event hosts hundreds of exhibitors as well as seminars and forums directly relating to agribusiness from large-scale operations to small acreage farms and ranches. Show manager Myrna O’ Leary says the ever popular weather expert Art Douglas will be back to speak. O’Leary: “Yes, Art Douglas will be back. I have received many phone calls wondering if Art will be coming back and he will be 9:00 a.m., Tuesday morning, February 2nd, opening day, in the DoubleTree Ballroom.” Also speaking the morning of February 2nd will be John Oades of the west coast office of U.S. Wheat Associates. Among the topics Oades will address are biotechnology and cheap Black Sea wheat. The Farm Forum will also feature a session February 3rd with the ag deans from Washington State University and the University of Idaho addressing financial issues. And of course there are nearly three dozen seminars on numerous topics over the three-day event. Ten dollars gets you into everything and there is free parking and shuttle service at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on the Northwest Ag Information Network.
