President John Kugler convened the business meeting at 7:00 a.m.,
August 5, 1998
John Kugler welcomed George Vandemark to the Western group and
the alfalfa research community. George will be working on germplasm
enhancement as well as other topics in Prosser.
Old Business
A The minutes of the 1997 WAIC business meeting
in Davis, California were read by Secretary Mark Smith and approved
by unanimous vote.
B Treasure Pete Reisen was not present. John Kugler gave the
treasures report. The WAIC account has $3,508.
New Business
A David Hannaway discussed placement of Western yield trial results
on the Web. Dennis Cash suggested all Western Universities use
the same format as the CAIC. Dennis Cash and Dan Putnam were
designated co-chairman to investigate this further and report
their findings at the 1999 WAIC meetings. David Hannaway will
work with Dan Skinner and the WAIC committees to develop and use
a search format for data in the future. Thanks went out to Dave
Evanís for his past work in gathering and publishing trials
results the past few years.
B John Kugler appointed Dennis Cash to coordinate Western variety
trial retrieval and dissemination with Dan Skinner. Dennis will
also serve as the person pulling hard copies from the Web when
hard copies are requested, or will make a reduced number of hard
copies before the data is sent to the Web in 99. Larry Teuber
suggested that funding be sent to Dan Skinner to offset his costs
of this project. Money is to come from the reduced number of
hard copies not printed.
C Future Site. Ron Delaney invited the WAIC to Powell, WY for
a joint WAIC/WSCS meeting the week of the 27-30, 1999. Discussion
centered on a separate session for alfalfa papers and a tour specific
to alfalfa interests. Industry has increased seed production
in Wyoming and a tour of this area was discussed.
D Fred Gray suggested the new NAAIC directory have an additional
section added which would place people and company/University
together alphabetically. Dan Skinner is looking into this now.
E Larry Teuber addressed the lack of supply of one lot of standard
checks. Private industry volunteered to produce seed for checks
that are needed. This will be coordinated by Austin Campbell.
Larry Teuber also suggested that the Regional PI station instead
of Austin Campbell disseminate seed. Larry and John will investigate
this by discussing the proposal with Stephane Greene and Austin
Campbell.
F John Kugler asked David Hannaway to discuss the Northwest forage
center proposal being proposed by OSU. The proposed forage center
would hopefully generate funding and support for research, awareness
of the role forages play, and marketing opportunities.
G John Kugler adjourned the meeting at 9:00 am.
Respectfully submitted,
Mark Smith
Secretary
ATTENDEES:
| John Dodd | Mike Reed | Ian Ray
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| Don Miller | George Vandemark | Vern Marble
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| Lauren Johnson | Ken Taggard | Dennis Cash
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| Gregg Cluff | Bill Ford | Tony Wilson
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| Larry Teuber | David Hannaway | Franklin Bedard
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| Neil Hayes | Robin Groose | Ray Ditterline
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| Les Bohrson | Ron Delaney | Fred Gray
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| John Kugler | Mark Smith |