4/16/08 REGISTRATION is now open for the Soybean Breeders Strategic Planning Meeting.

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:39:33 -0500

Time & Place:
Wednesday evening June 18 through Friday June 20 at noon
St. Louis Airport Hilton.

PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO REGISTER TODAY !

The meeting is Open Invitation to Public & Private Breeders, Genomicists, Physiologists, and Pathologists.

However, space is limited. Registration will be accepted on a 'first come, first serve' basis.

Please download and fill out the registration form today and EMAIL or FAX to Ann Chase with USB (achase@smithbucklin.com) USB has provided funds to cover most meals and meeting rooms (you will cover travel and hotel sleeping room). Special hotel rates are available through registration with Ann until May 20 or until registration is closed out.

ABOUT THE MEETING

This meeting is a follow up to the 'town hall' meeting about the future of soybean breeding that was held at the Soybean Breeders' Workshop in February.

As you know, soybean breeding faces critical challenges ahead. Shortages of soybean breeders are predicted, adapting molecular technology for field breeding is complex, establishing good public-private collaborations is in the experimental stage, and even maintaining public breeding programs is questionable. What should public soybean breeders be doing?

The questions facing us are many. Please come join your colleagues and help forge the way ahead in soybean breeding. We need your ideas and participation! The program will be interesting. We are scheduling large blocks of time for discussion. The objective of this meeting is to develop a Soybean Breeding Strategic Plan to share with public and private administrators to influence hiring and funding priorities.

So, please register now and put the meeting on your calendar! See you there!

Details of the program will follow in a few weeks.

Lastly, this meeting directly follows the national plant breeder meeting in Des Moines. We will have a report on the national meeting at our soybean meeting

Sincerely,

The Executive Committee for the meeting:
Brian Diers
Jim Orf
Clem Weidenbenner
Perry Cregan
Roger Boerma
Steve Schnebly
Kevin Matson
Todd Pfeiffer
Jim Specht
Tommy Carter