8:00 a.m.

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30 - 8:45 am

Stewart Smith
Nitragin - WI
'Opening Welcome - Overview'

8:45 - 9:30 am

KEYNOTE SPEAKER — Gerard Catroux
- INRA-CMSE, UMR Microbiologie des sols-Géosol DIJON, FRANCE.
'Dreaming Of The Perfect Inoculant'

9:30 - 9:40 am

Peter McCann
Plant Inoculants Canada - ON
'Goals & Objectives – Origin of PIC'

9:40 - 10:10 am

Ewa Madey
CFIA - ON
'Registration & Testing Of Inoculants In Canada'

COFFEE BREAK

10:40 - 11:00 a.m.

Dean Thome
Philom Bios - SK
'Registration & Testing Of Inoculants In The US'

11:00 - 11:15 a.m.

 ROUND TABLE

11:15 - 11:45 a.m.

Manas Banerjee
Brett Young Seeds - MB
'Sulphur Inoculants'

LUNCH

1:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Joe Kloepper
Auburn University - AL
'PGPR'

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Chantal Hamel
AAFC - Swift Current, SK
'Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi & Phosphorus: Apples & Oranges'

2:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Susan Parent
Premier Tech - QC
'Challenges In Commercialization, Formulations & Marketing Of AMF Inoculants For Agronomic Crops'

2:30 - 3:00 p.m.

John Walsh
CelPril - CA
'Seed Coatings & Inoculants'

COFFEE BREAK

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Fran Walley
Soil Science – University of SK
'Herbicide Inoculant Interactions'

4:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Alex Matus
Bayer Crop Science - SK
'Seed Treatment Inoculant Interactions'

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Turlough Finan
Canadian Sinorhizobium Genome Consortium - ON
'Understanding Gene Function In Rhizobia'

6:30 p.m.

DINNER (Adam Ballroom)
Student Poster Award Presentation
Speaker – Les Henry

7:30 a.m.

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00 - 8:20 a.m.

Phillipe Seguin
Professor – McGill University - QC
'Nodulation Specificity & Success In The Kura Clover-Rhizobia Symbiosis'

8:20 - 8:40 a.m.

Mariangela Hungria
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA) Soja, Londrina , PR, Brazil;
'Soybean: Contrast Between US & Brazilian Inoculation Experiences'

8:40 - 9:00 a.m.

Yantai Gan
AAFC - Swift Current, SK
'Best Crop Management Options To Maximize Nodulation In Annual Pulses'

9:00 - 9:20 a.m.

Ken Lopetinsky
AB Agriculture, Food & Rural Development - AB
'Alternative Crops On The Prairies - Fababean & Narrow Leafed Lupin'

9:20 - 10:00 a.m.

Greg Waibel
Becker Underwood - IA
'Inoculants In South America'

COFFEE BREAK

10:15 - 10:45 a.m.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Top Two Selected Students

10:45 - 11:15 a.m.

Don Smith
Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Science - McGill University - QC
‘Inoculants Plus Chemical Enhancers’

11:15 - 11:45 a.m.

Stewart Smith
Nitragin - WI
'New Patented Growth Promoter Technology To enhance Early Season Soyben Development & Grain Yield'

LUNCH

12:45 - 1:15 p.m.

Hannah McIver
Agribiotics - ON
'The Use Of Legume/Rhizobial Signals For Yield Enhancement In Non-Leguminous Crops'

1:15 - 1:45 p.m.

Danielle Prevost
AAFC - QC
'Rhizobia Effects On Non Legumes'

1:45 - 2:15 p.m.

Eric Triplett
University of Florida
'N-Fixation Non Legumes'

COFFEE BREAK

2:45 - 3:15 p.m.

Peter Graham
University of Minnesota
'Rhizobium Strain Selection; Differing Needs In The Inoculation Of Agricultural Plants & Revegetation Settings'

3:15 - 3:45 p.m.

Rosalind Ball
Department of Plant Sciences – University of SK
'Barriers, At The Level Of Plant Breeding, Preventing The Release Of Symbiotically Efficient Cultivars'

3:45 - 4:00 p.m.

CALVIN SONNTAG
Philom Bios - SK
'Closing Remarks'