SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

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Status: Approved

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Project No. and Title: NECC29 : Northeastern Corn Improvement Conference
Period Covered: 10/01/2009 to 09/01/2010
Date of Report: 05/27/2011
Annual Meeting Dates: 02/17/2011 to 02/18/2011

Name Organization Email Gregory D. Binford University of Delaware binfordg@udel.edu Michael Blanco USDA-ARS Plant Introduction michael.blanco@ars.usda.gov Eric Bohnenblust Penn State University ewb14@psu.edu James Breining Penn State University jab94@psu.edu Herb Brown Premier Seed Group hmbrown@msn.com Jared Bruckhart Chemgro Seeds jaredb@chemgro.com Bill Camerer Doeblers dwarner@doeblers.com William Cissel University of Delaware bcissel@udel.edu Michelle Der Bedrosian University of Delaware micheled@udel.edu Bob DeWaine Monsanto bob.dewaine@monsanto.com Galen Dively University of Maryland galen@umd.edu Taylor Doebler T.A. Seeds taylor@taseeds.com Erick Erickson U.S. Grains Council eerickson@grains.org Lindsey Flexner DuPont Agricultural Biotechnology lindsey.Flexner@cgr.dupont.com Patrick J. Forrestal University of Maryland patrickforrestal@hotmail.com Nate Glenn Premier Seed Group nate@glennseeds.com Arvydas Grybauskas University of Maryland arvydas@umd.edu James Haldeman Dow AgroSciences jfhaldeman@dow.com David Huffman T.A. Seeds LLC huffy@taseeds.com Mark Jung DuPont Ag Biotech Mark.T.Jung@cgr.dupont.com Robert Kratochvil University of Maryland rkratoch@umd.edu Polly Longenberger Pioneer Hi-Bred Polly.Longenberger@pioneer.com Tim Lovell Doeblers dwarner@doeblers.com Bao-Luo Ma Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada baoluo.ma@agr.gc.ca Charles Mason University of Delaware mason@udel.edu David Mayonado Monsanto david.j.mayonado@monsanto.com Craig McManus Premier Seed Group cmmcmanus@gmail.com Bob Mulrooney University of Delaware bobmul@udel.edu William Patzoldt DuPont Crop Protection william.l.patzoldt@usa.dupont.com Pierce A. Paul The Ohio State University paul.661@osu.edu Keith Payne Cornell University krp6@cornell.edu Jan Antoni Rafalski Pioneer HiBred Intl. j-antoni.rafalski@cgr.dupont.com Lana Reid Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada lana.reid@agr.gc.ca Greg Roth Penn State gwr@psu.edu Margaret Smith Cornell University mes25@cornell.edu Stephen Srachan DuPont stephen.d.strachan-1@usa.dupont.com Richard W. Taylor University of Delaware rtaylor@udel.edu John Tooker Penn State University tooker@psu.edu Bob Uniatowski University of Delaware bobuni@udel.edu Tecle Weldekidan University of Delaware tecle@udel.edu Joanne Whalen University of Delaware jwhalen@udel.edu Dave Whitaker Pioneer Hi-Bred Int. David.Whitaker@Pioneer.com Mark Williams DuPont AgBiotech mark.e.williams@cgr.dupont.com Randall Wisser University of Delaware rjw@udel.edu Xiaoyang Zhu Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada xiaoyang.zhu@agr.gc.ca

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Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

NEC-29 business meeting 65th NECIC Meeting Minutes February 18, 2011 I. Call to order Tecle Weldekidan called to order the regular meeting of the NECIC committee at 11:30 am on February 18, 2011 in Newark, DE. II. Roll call Tecle circulated a sign in sheet. The following persons were present: Tecle Weldekidan U. of Delaware Tecle@udel.edu Polly Longenberger Pioneer Hi-Bred polly.longenberger@pioneer.com Keith Payne Cornell krple@cornell.edu Xiaoyang Zhu Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Xiaoyah.Zhu@agr.gc.ca Lana Reid Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Lana.Reid@agri.gc.ca Margaret Smith Cornell mes25@cornell.edu Bao Luo Ma Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Baoluo.Ma@agr.gc.ca Taylor A. Doebler III T.A. Seeds taylor@taseeds.com Jared Bruckhart Chemgro Seeds jaredb@chemgro.com David Hoffman T.A. Seeds huffy@taseeds.com Greg Roth Penn State gwr@psu.edu Jim Breining Penn State jab94@psu.edu III. Approval of minutes from last meeting Tecle read the minutes from the last meeting. The minutes were approved as read. IV. Open issues a) Margaret will look into posting conference information on the multistate information website. b) State reports were shared and should be sent to Tecle to be included in 2011 NECIC proceedings. c) Polly as 2012 president will investigate accepting treasury balance for us in 2012. d) Margaret will contact Polly with information on who to contact regarding 2012 joint meeting with the North Central Corn Improvement Conference. V. New business a) Taylor asked that university researchers keep private industry aware of funding issues. b) Margaret and Greg will follow up on renewing NECIC through the USDA since they use funding to attend the meetings. c) Greg and Taylor suggested that we try to line up speakers from grower associations, Pacma, research directors, etc for our next conference. d) Some Delaware Valley researchers had an interest in the conference but were not aware of it. Please share contact information for potential speakers/attendees. e) Should a molecular biology session be added to the conference to encourage participation of molecular biologists? f) Bau Luo Ma was nominated as Secretary and accepted. VI. Adjournment Tecle adjourned the meeting at 12:30pm. Minutes submitted by: Polly Longenberger, Secretary Minutes approved by: to be approved at 2012 business meeting