Annual Meeting Purpose

• Exchange information on current research programs and educational efforts
• Set regional priorities for the vegetable industry
  

2010 Annual Meeting - Columbus, OH

The sixth annual Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group will be held at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH on February 24th & 25th!  Registration is open now until January 11th, 2010, but please sign up early so we can get a handle on how many will be attending. 

Lodging will be at the Hilton Garden Inn Columbus University Area, and our meeting will be held at the Fawcett Center just down the road. The local arrangements chair is Jim Jasinski plus other Columbus based folks.

2009 Annual Meeting - Geneva, NY

The fifth annual Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group will be held the Cornell Experiment Station in Geneva, NY on February 25th & 26th!  The local arrangements chair is Steve Reiners of Cornell University. We will be staying at the Ramada Geneva Lakefront on Feb. 24th and 25th.

2009 Meeting Presentations

2008 Annual Meeting - West LaFayette, IN

The fourth annual Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group will be held in West LaFayette, IN on February 27th & 28th.  Local arrangement chairs are Liz Maynard & Chris Gunter of Purdue U. and Rick Weinzierl, Univ. of Illinois.  Contact them for more information.

2008 Meeting Presentations   (Adobe PDF)

2007 Annual Meeting - Leamington, Ontario

The third annual Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group will be held in Leamington, Ontario   (Canada) at the Seacliffe Inn and Roma Club on February 28th & March 1st. 

Details concerning the rough agenda were sent to the GLVWG listserv October 12th by Janice LeBoeuf.  Janice did a nice job putting together some information regarding border crossing in that email.  Remember, since this meeting is in Canada, you WILL need proper documentation to travel to and from this meeting if you are not a Canadian citizen.

Photos for the Curling team building excercise and cultural enhancement can be found here (52 MB).

2007 Meeting Presentations   (Adobe PDF)

2006 Annual Meeting - East Lansing, Michigan

The second annual Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group conference will be held at the Henry Executive Center in Lansing (http://www.bus.msu.edu/edc/home.cfm) near the campus of Michigan State University, February 22nd and 23rd. Contact Hannah Stevens at stevensh@msu.edu for more information.

2006 Presentations (all saved in Adobe PDF, viewable but not printable)

2005 Annual Meeting - Columbus, Ohio

The first annual Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group conference was held at the University Plaza and Conference Center, February 23rd and 24th, in Columbus, Ohio. Contact Jim Jasinski (937-484-1526) for more information.

Meeting Minutes - L. Maynard & J. LeBoeuf

2005 Presentations (all in Powerpoint)