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Breakout Sessions
Saturday, February 15th. 9:30am.
Identification and Management of Flies Associated with
Livestock. Kristina Friesen
The four common ‘filth flies’ associated with livestock are horn
flies, stable flies, face flies, and house flies. Because the behavioral
ecology and economic impact of each fly is unique, livestock producers must be
able to implement a management plan tailored to their system. During this
presentation, the identification, behavior, impact, and management of each fly
will be discussed.
About
Kristina: Kristina Friesen is a medical and livestock
entomologist working with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. I
received my degrees in microbiology, entomology, and animal science from
Montana State University. For my graduate studies I investigated the transmission
of West Nile virus in a colony of American white pelicans, then stable fly
development and behavior. After graduating from MSU, I was hired by the
ARS to focus on stable fly development and management.
Lone Tree Foods. Lori Tatreau
LTF is a groundbreaking network of local food producers in western
Iowa & eastern Nebraska, dedicated to safe, sustainable, & humane
production practices. As producers expand into new markets, LTF provides the
necessary training, marketing, technical assistance and mentoring. This
innovative alliance of non-profits, community colleges, restaurants and
trainers work to build the capacity of our producer members. Lone Tree Foods
creates systems that support increased access to locally grown and raised foods
for professional food buyers. By linking resources in Iowa and Nebraska, we are
bridging urban and rural communities to build a united, community-based food
system. Lone Tree Foods is a group of famers producing local food and selling
into the Omaha, Lincoln, Council Bluffs areas to wholesale buyers such as
restaurants and stores. We work together to establish quality and delivery
standards, purchase supplies, crop plan, and educate ourselves. We are working
toward a full local food aggregation and distribution system and possible food
hub. If you would like to learn more about our group, how to participate, and
our plans for the future and general insight into the local food system and
wholesale sales, please join me for this interactive presentation.
About Lori: Lori Tatreau is a passionate local food advocate
working to rebuild a sustainable local food supply. She has been a local food
buyer for a small health food grocer, a bouquet maker at the Omaha Farmer’s
Market, an organic farm apprentice, Local Forager for the Midwest Region of
Whole Foods Market, organizer of a local food dinner for 500, and George Paul
Vinegar sales associate. In addition to managing the Midweek Market at Midtown
Crossing, she is currently manager of Lone Tree Foods, a local food producers
network for farmers ready to scale up to wholesale sales. She is also President
of the Douglas County chapter of the Nebraska Farmers Union, and member of the
Marketplace Committee of the Nebraska Agriculture Council, a project of the
Humane Society of the United States. In 2012 Lori was hostess and organizer of
the monthly Hootenanny series at the Waiting Room in Benson which raised money
for local food and farm projects. She is an Omaha native with an MFA in
Painting from Hunter College in New York and hopes to retire to a bison ranch
in the Sandhills someday.
CSA
102- How two beginner farmers started a CSA program from scratch. 26th Street Farm.
Hannah Keen and Will Boal, farmers at 26th Street
Farm (a two acre CSA farm in Hastings, NE), will present on how they successfully
started a CSA program in a smaller community, and the lessons learned
after two years of being a beginner farmer. If you are interested in starting a
CSA, this will be a good choice for you. We also would like to encourage
an open dialogue with other CSA farmers, so please attend
and share your stories.
About
Hannah & Will:
Hannah Keen is a
Nebraska native who's farming interests come from growing up with a family that
always had a kitchen garden. After moving to the Pacific Northwest for a
farming internship, she met Will Boal. Due to their acess of Land in
Nebraska, they moved back and together they are beginning their third year
farming two acres in Hastings, Nebraska.
Will Boal is an
Oregon native who grew up in the city, but during college realized his interest
in farming and ending up embarking on a variety of farm internsips before
ending up on a vegetable farm in Washington State where he met Hannah Keen.
2014 will be the third year of farming at 26th Street Farm in Hastings,
Nebraska.
