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Professional Evening at Powell Gardens

August 21, 2008
4:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by
Missouri Landscape & Nursery Association
HortNet Work
McHutchinson Horticultural Distributors

MLNA “Green Table” opportunity! Showcase your company/organization/distributor brochures. Special Eco-friendly introduction table sponsored by MLNA.

Whether you are attending or not you can send your business information for distribution! Please call Powell Garden for shipping and delivery instruction details.

Powell’s Pick Book Sale featuring Sponsor’s Selections!

Powell Gardens
1609 N.W. U.S. Highway 50
Kingsville, MO 64061
http://www.powellgardens.org/

Cost $15 - RSVP to Emalie Hunt (ehunt@powellgardens.org)

816.697.2600 x 234

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Schedule of Events:

4:00 p.m. Tours of Powell Gardens – refreshments
Specialized tours for your area of interest with Powell Professionals: Woodies, Natives, Annuals, Perennials, Water plants, Edible plants, Greenhouse, General tour

5:30 p.m. Slide presentation – Multi Purpose

"What’s New? Annuals, Perennials and Tropicals!" – Vaughn Fletcher

"Plants of Merit – the Program the Plants" – Chris Nejelski

“Safe & Sustainable Professional Pest Management Practice”
- Andy Seckinger / Olympic Horticultural Products, Inc – OHP

6:30 p.m. Dinner – Bates City BBQ – Gallery and Terrace/multipurpose

7:15 p.m. Slide presentations – Multi purpose I & II

Natives – How to Use and Sell – Alan Branhagen
Or
What’s New – Part II – Vaughn Fletcher

8:15 p.m. Closing
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Cleary Turf Products Joins MLNA

Thank you Brad for your membership enrollment with the MLNA

We welcome Cleary Turf Products as a 2009 member of the Missouri Landscape & Nursery Association.

As a new member registering now till the end of the year at the full membership price, you receive the pre-calendar benefit of having all membership benefits starting now! This includes your own profile page on our newly updated MLNA website, our full membership’s contact information, press release distribution assistance and any special members’ only benefits including special pricing. Also let us know what your company is doing to be green! “Sustainability: MLNA’s Green Leaders Support Membership, Clients and Community” This is the title to MLNA press release going out to media soon. Be sure to let us know what your efforts are for the environment. We want to be able to have Cleary mentioned in the text with what you are doing for a sustainable future!

Missouri Noxious Weeds

Noxious weeds are those for which control measures, to some extent, are required by law. Across the United States, more than 500 weeds have been designated as noxious by either weed or seed laws. In Missouri, 11 weeds carry that designation: Canada thistle, field bindweed, johnsongrass, kudzu, multiflora rose, purple loosestrife, common and cutleaf teasel, musk thistle, Scotch thistle and marijuana. Noxious Weeds of Missouri provides descriptions and one or more photographs of each weed to aid in their identification. Included is a brief discussion of biological control of musk thistle by its natural enemies. See full infoormation in downloadable PDF format at http://extension.missouri.edu/explorepdf/agguides/pests/ipm1014.pdf

for more information on weeds of Missouri visit: http://weedid.missouri.edu/

Quarantine of Emerald Ash Borer Announced for Wayne County

Missouri Department of Agriculture
Agriculture News

For Immediate Release: Friday, August 15, 2008
Media Contact: Misti Preston, (573) 751-8596/ Collin Wamsley, state entomologist, (573) 751-5505


Quarantine of Emerald Ash Borer Regulated Articles Announced for Wayne County

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) – The Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) has quarantined ash wood and ash products and hardwood firewood in Wayne County, effective immediately, as part of an attempt to prevent the further spread of the emerald ash borer. MDA and USDA confirmed the identification of the emerald ash borer in late July at a campground near Greenville in Wayne County – the first detection of the plant pest in Missouri. The emerald ash borer is an invasive wood boring pest that is responsible for the death and decline of over 30 million ash trees across the U.S. “This quarantine of Wayne County is a necessary step in doing everything we can to prevent movement and a further infestation of the emerald ash borer,” said Collin Wamsley, state entomologist with MDA. “Missouri has participated in a nationwide early detection effort since 2004. The arrival of the Emerald ash borer, although a disappointment, was not a surprise. We will continue to do everything we can to protect Missouri forests and landscapes from further infestation.” The quarantine is issued under the regulatory authority provided by the Plant Protection Act which authorizes the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit or restrict the movement in interstate commerce of any plant, plant part, or article if the prohibition or restriction is necessary to prevent the dissemination of a plant pest in the U.S. MDA and USDA-APHIS continue to carryout delimiting surveys around the initial detection site of the emerald ash borer. The first U.S. detection of the Emerald ash borer occurred in Michigan in 2002. Since then, it has been detected eight other states including Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Virginia. Missouri is the furthest south and west of any other known infestations. For more information regarding the emerald ash borer, visit www.mdc.mo.gov/firewood or call Collin Wamsley at (573) 751-5505. To learn more about the Plant Protection Act, visit http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/pubs/fsheet_faq_notice/fs_phproact.html.

Small Business Invited To Testify

The Missouri Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board ensures that Missouri state agency rules and regulations do not create an unfair burden for small businesses. SBRFB, working with small business owners throughout Missouri, ensures that the voice of small business is considered when state rules and regulations are created. The SBRFB will hold a public hearing from 1-4 pm, Wednesday, September 3, at the Bill Foster North Room of the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce, 202 S John Q Hammons Pkwy, Springfield. Registration will begin at 12:30pm. The Board has invited Professional Registration within the Missouri Department of Insurance to testify at the hearing.

The board will receive testimony with regard to the state agency's efforts to include small business in the development of their rules and regulations. Small business owners who wish to comment on how state agency rules and regulations affect their operations are invited to attend. Comments may be given orally or by written testimony.

Registration forms may be found on the board’s website (http://www.sbrfb.ded.mo.gov/); by sending an e-mail request to mailto:sbrfb@ded.mo.gov?subject=Comment%20for%20the%20SBRFB or by calling 1-866-719-1401. Opening for testimony will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Walk-in testimony will be allowed if time permits. Should small business owners be unable to attend, written testimony may be sent in advance of the forum to be included in the public record. Written testimony forms can be found at www.sbrfb.ded.mo.gov/comments.htm and should be sent to Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board, Missouri Department of Economic Development, P.O. Box 118, Jefferson City, MO 65102 or e-mailed to SBRFB@ded.mo.gov.

Small business owners, as well as organizations are encouraged to provide comment to the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board on issues related to how state agency rules and regulations impact small business operations.

If you have any questions about the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board or the public hearing on September 3rd, please feel free to contact me at (573) 526-3606 or by email at krista.zurkamer@ded.mo.gov.

MLNA planning our Summer Field Day In Springfield for 2009

MLNA already in planning stage for our Summer Field day for 2009-Here is a brief note from MLNA Treasurer Bryan Stringer/ MLNA Field Day 2009 Planning Chairman

At this time the MLNA board is looking into having our annual summer field day in Springfield, MO at Close Park. Close Park is located in the south west part of the city across from Horton Smith golf course. Plans are currently in the works to establish a botanical center in Close Park to act a central hub to the various gardens throughout the park. We would look to hold the event around the third week in June similar to this years field day. I am looking forward to having the MLNA host an event in southwestern Missouri. It has been several years since the presence of the MLNA has been felt in this part of the state.

Growing together,

Bryan Stringer
MLNA Treasurer

Very Active Board Members showcase MLNA at various venues across the state

Invitation To all MLNA members and Green Industry Professionals to attend Field Day at The Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. This research arm of the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Missouri-Columbia is celebrating their 49th Year of Science in the Public Service Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. Located
4 mi. southwest of Mt. Vernon, Missouri on Hwy. H, Field Day is co-sponsored by the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Ozark Electric Cooperative, Mt Vernon, Missouri.
Tours start at 9:00 a.m. and end at 1 p.m.
(Ozark Electric’s annual meeting begins at 1pm)

TOPICS WILL INCLUDE INFORMATION ON HORTICULTURE! Special Topic: Viticulture
PLUS: As always: "Ask the Experts" Clinic
(Diseases, Insect, Weeds, Horticulture Problems)

Free Lunch Friday to First 1,000 Visitors Who Sign In
At The Registration Booth

For more information: http://aes.missouri.edu/swcenter/fieldday/08flyer.pdf

or contact Carla Rathmann at mailto:RathmannC@missouri.edu