A general meeting of the National Clean Plant Network (NCPN) was convened at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. on March 25-26, 2009. The members of the Core Working Group acted as hosts and introduced the newly appointed members of the NCPN Governing Body (Tier 1). Those board members are: Bill Dickerson (ARS, Center for Plant Health, Science & Technology, North Carolina), Wayne Dixon (Florida State Department of Agriculture), Joseph Postman (USDA, Corvallis, Oregon), Ken Rauscher (Plant Board and Michigan State Department of Agriculture), and Tom Wessels (Washington State Department of Agriculture).
One of the highlights of the meeting was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) by three USDA agencies - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES). In the MOU, the three agencies agreed to cooperatively support research, quarantine and outreach activities for the newly-organized NCPN.
Meryl Broussard (CSREES), Dr. Ed Knipling (ARS), and Kevin Shea (APHIS) sign the Memorandum of Understanding on March 26, 2009
The agenda, minutes and presentations from the March 25-26 meeting can be accessed below.
AGENDA - NCPN Meeting March 25-26, 2009
MINUTES: currently in the process of transcription
SIGNED VERSION OF MOU - March 26, 2009
Meeting presentations:
Meeting Purpose, Expectations and Desired Outcomes - Erich Rudyj
NCPN Overview and Updates - Murali Bandla
Lunch Speaker March 25 - Margaret Pooler
NCPN Fruit Tree (Tier 2) - Ken Eastwell
Western Grapes CPN (Tier 3) - Bob Martin
Eastern Grapes CPN (Tier 3) - Marc Fuchs
NCPN Grapes (Tier 2) - Deborah Golino
Citrus - Georgios Vidalakis
Citrus - Wayne Dixon
Citrus Germplasm - Richard Lee
Industry Comments on NCPN - Robert Woolley
Lunch Speaker May 26 - Kitty Cardwell