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Oh Thurdsay Dec 11 the Great Lakes Fruit and Veg Expo will offer the Organic Session from 9 am through 3 pm. The morning will offer info for beginning organic farmers and news about what the farm bill offers organic farmers this round, including an increase up to $750 per farm inspection (it was $500). There will be a session on organic vegetable production and organic fruit production. There is a single day registration fee of $30 for just Thursday. You can pre register for the whole trade show (Tues-Thur) for $60.00 which includes memberships to The Grower and Country Folks Grower. If you would like to see the whole program you can go online to : http://www.glexpo.com/register.php Hope to see you there. The trade show is huge and the other sessions are very interesting too, IPM for Sweet corn and farmers markets are also on Thur. Vicki Morrone Organic Vegetable and Crop Outreach Specialist Michigan State University C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems 303 Natural Resources Bldg. East Lansing, MI 48824 517-353-3542 517-282-3557 (cell) 517-353-3834 (fax) For information on organic agriculture production please visit: http://www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu/ P Please consider the environment before printing this email If you would like to access previous postings to the Mich-Organic listserv you can copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar http://list.msu.edu/archives/mich-organic.html