Sugarcane Calendar of Events 2008

^{Date and Time}

^{Spring/Summer Calendar of Events}

^{March 25 – 1:30 PM}

^{ASCL Board Meeting, Patterson Civic Center, 116 Cotton Road, Patterson, LA}

^{April 22 – 8:00 AM}

^{Audubon Sugar Institute Factory Operations Seminar, LSU Campus, Efferson Hall,  Baton Rouge, LA}

^{April 30 – 1:30 PM}

^{ASCL Board Meeting, Howard Johnson’s Envie, 203 East Bayou Rd., Thibodaux, LA}

^{May 8 – 10:00 AM}

^{25X25, LA Farm Bureau Office, Airline Highway, Baton Rouge, LA}

^{May 14 – 8:50 AM}

^{Sugarcane Extension/Research Training Meeting, Sugar Research Station, St. Gabriel, LA}

^{May 15 – 31}

^{Audubon Sugar Institute (ASI), Intersession Course in Sugar Process Engineering (BE 4342: Sugar Process Engineering) at ASI, 3845 Hwy 75, St. Gabriel, LA}

^{May 28 – 1:30 PM}

^{ASCL Board Meeting, Holiday Inn, 2032 NE Evangeline Thruway, Lafayette, LA}

^{May 29 – 9:30 AM}

^{Ascension/St. Charles/St. James/St. John Parish Area Sugarcane Field Day, Welcome Plantation (Hwy 3127), Welcome, LA}

^{June 6 – 8:00 AM}

^{Terrebonne Parish Area Sugarcane Field Day, USDA-ARS, SRRC, Sugarcane Research Laboratory, Ardoyne Farm, Bull Run Road (TP 19), Chacahoula, LA}

^{June 18-20}

^{38th Annual Joint Meeting of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists (ASSCT), Louisiana & Florida Divisions, International Plaza Resort & Spa, 10100 International Drive, Orlando, FL}

^{June 23-July 3}

^{24th Annual Raw Cane Sugar Manufacturers’ Institute, Department of Agriculture and Office of Continuing Education, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA}

^{June 23-27}

^{Joint ISSCT IX Plant Pathology and VI Molecular Biology Workshop, Cali, Colombia, at the Colombian Sugarcane Research Center-Cenicana.}

^{June 26-27}

^{Audubon Sugar Institute (ASI), Short Course (Practical Aspects of Ion Exchange, Adsorption and Industrial Chromatographic Technologies), Holiday Inn South, 9940 Airline Hwy, Baton Rouge, LA}

^{June 25 – 1:30 PM}

^{ASCL Board Meeting, Howard Johnson’s Envie, 203 East Bayou Rd., Thibodaux, LA}

^{June 26-29}

^{Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation Convention, New Orleans Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, LA}

^{June 28}

^{Commodity Conferences, Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation Convention, New Orleans Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, LA}

^{June 30 – July 5}

^{ISSCT Engineering Workshop, “Design, manufacturing and maintenance of sugar mill equipment”, Central Sugar Mill, Piracicaba, SP - Brazil}

^{July 14 – 9:00 AM}

^{LSU Area Sugarcane Field Day – “Dry Run”, Sugar Research Station, St. Gabriel, LA}

^{(Please Note: Designated Agent Training Meeting)}

^{July 16 – 9:00 AM}

^{LSU Area Sugarcane Field Day [Iberville, Pointe Coupee, St. Charles, St. John, West Baton Rouge], Sugar Research Station, St. Gabriel, LA}

^TBA

^{Vermilion Parish Sugarcane Summer School, LCES Office Bldg. Conference Room, Abbeville, LA}

^{July 17 – 8:30 AM}

^{Lafourche Parish Sugarcane Field Day, Agriculture Building (New Location), Raceland, LA}

^{July 18 – 2:00 PM}

^(Tentative)

^{St. Martin/Lafayette/St. Landry Parishes Sugarcane Field Day, Levert-St. John Plantation, St. Martinville, LA (with Inside Program at Woodmen-of- the-World Building, St. Martinville beginning at approximately 4:00 PM )}

^{July 21 – August 1}

^{Cane Sugar Refiners’ Institute, Department of Agriculture and Office of Continuing Education, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA}

^(TBA)

^{Avoyelles/Rapides Parish Fall Practices Meeting, Bunkie Civic Center (Old Bunkie Bank Meeting Room), Bunkie, LA}

^{July 22 – 9:00 AM}

^{Assumption Parish Sugarcane Tour and Field Day, LCES Office, 119 Robin Street, Napoleonville, LA}

^{July 24 – 4:30 PM}

^{Iberia/St. Mary Parish Sugarcane Field Day}

^{Iberia Research Station, Jeanerette, LA (with Inside Program at Ward 8 Recreation Center, Jeanerette)}

^{August (TBA) – 9:30 AM}

^{Certified Prescribed Burn Manager Training, Sugar Station Conference Room (Brick Building), St. Gabriel, LA}

^{August 20}

^{ASCL Board Meeting, Rural Life Museum, 4650 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, LA}