Wednesday, May 15
4:30 PM – NAMA Member Meeting
Location: Embassy Suites East Peoria
6:30 PM – Reception and Dinner for Conference Attendees
Location: Embassy Suites East Peoria
Thursday, May 16
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM – Conference
Location: National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR)
8:00 a.m. | On-Site Registration | NCAUR Reception Area |
Speaker’s Check-In | NCAUR Auditorium | |
8:30 a.m. | Introduction and Preliminaries | Sean X. Liu, Ph.D., Program Chairman |
8:45 a.m. | State of the 2012 drought and the outlook for 2013 | James Angel, Ph.D., State Climatologist University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
9:15 a.m. | Corn Market Trends | Andy Shissler, Branch Office Manager Roach Ag Marketing, Ltd., Downers Grove, IL |
9:45 a.m. | The 2012 drought and the impact on aflatoxin, fumonisin, and DON | Scott Heuchelin, Research Scientist Pioneer, Johnston, IA |
10:15 a.m. | BREAK | |
10:45 a.m. | Allergen threshold efforts | Stephen Taylor, Ph.D., Professor & Co-Director, Food Allergy Research and Resource Program, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE |
11:15 a.m. | Whole Grains requirement in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs | Ann M.B. Hall, MRE, RD, LDN, CDE, CNSC Food and Nutrition Service, USDA, Alexandria, VA |
11:45 a.m. | Expanding yields to feed a growing population | Margaret Zeigler, Executive Director Global Harvest Initiative, Washington, DC |
12:15 p.m. | LUNCH | |
1:15 p.m. | Glucosylation of toxins | Mark Bussman, Research Chemist USDA NCAUR ARS, Peoria, IL |
1:45 p.m. | Khapra beetle infestation | Linda Mason |
2:15 p.m. | Mycotoxin in stored corn | Charles Woloshuk, Ph.D., Botany & Plant Pathology Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
2:45 p.m. | BREAK | |
3:15 p.m. | Controlling insect infestations | James Bagwell, Principal ProvisionGard Technology LLC, Greensboro, NC |
3:45 p.m. | U.S. Grains Council’s Corn Harvest Quality Report | John McKinney, P.E., Identity Grain Lab Director & Adjunct Research Engineer Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Champaign, IL |
4:15 p.m. | Impact of agronomic conditions on milling and end use quality | Kent Rausch, Associate Professor & Coordinator Bioprocess Researching & Testing Laboratory University of Illinois, Urbana, IL |
4:45 p.m. | Discussion |
Hotel Information and Room Reservations
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For further information about the meeting, please contact Lyndsey Valentine, Administrative Assistant, NAMA, at 202.484.2200, extension 17 or [email protected]