27th
INTERNATIONAL
CARROT
CONFERENCE

Return to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Horticulture Department, or visit the USDA Vegetable Crops Research Unit home page

The purpose of the Conference, sometimes aptly called a workshop, is to bring together everyone and anyone interested in carrots: growers, packers, shippers, seed producers, breeders, pathologists, sellers, marketers, University and USDA researchers, extension specialists, students, and anyone else interested in the carrot industry.

We expect to hear oral presentations and see posters on all aspects of carrots, with time for discussion, on Monday, August 24 and Tuesday morning, August 25. To maximize opportunities for discussion, lunch on Monday will be included as part of the program and served at the Monona Terrace. After a late afternoon break, Monday’s program will reconvene with a social hour and banquet.

After a full morning and afternoon of carrots, we will provide yet another opportunity to discuss carrots on Monday evening. We will have two informal discussion sessions, on carrot production and carrot breeding, after Monday’s banquet in the Monona Terrace, with a moderator to keep the discussion moving in each group. For those of you who have not been to recent carrot conferences, you may be surprised that anyone would have more to say about carrots, but these have been well received by those looking for a chance to talk or to just listen.

Presentations will continue through Tuesday morning. After lunch at the Monona Terrace, we will have buses available to go to a nearby production farm to observe a wide range of carrot cultivars submitted by seed companies from around the world. A tour of packing facilities is also being planned.

As in previous carrot conferences, you are welcome to bring literature to distribute. We will not publish written proceedings of the meeting.

Some other opportunities to see more carrots after our formal meeting include two tours in the Madison area. Asgrow-Seminis Seed Company’s carrot breeding station in DeForest, Wisconsin is an important component in the development of new Asgrow carrot varieties. The Department of Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin houses both the University of Wisconsin carrot breeding program and the USDA program. Examples of pigment analysis, molecular markers, tissue culture, transformation, and nematode resistance selection will be displayed. Tours of both these operations will be available on Wednesday.

The University of Wisconsin campus is less than a mile away. Other attractions in Southern Wisconsin include the House on the Rock, Taliesin, Cave of the Mounds, and Old World Wisconsin. The ‘Central Sands’ region of Wisconsin, about 2 hours north of Madison, accommodates a very large production of snap beans, peas, and sweet corn for processing in addition to carrots. Brewery tours in Madison or Milwaukee as well as numerous cheese factories in the area provide opportunities to sample other dietary essentials derived from Wisconsin agriculture. Milwaukee is about 1½ hours away, while a drive to Chicago takes 2½ hours.

Hotel Info

Early reservations of hotel rooms are highly recommended. Please make and confirm your room reservations directly with the hotel. Indicate your affiliation with the Carrot Conference 1998 to obtain the published rate. Please note the July 20 deadline to assure a room at the rate stated.

Parking

The $100 registration fee rate is valid only until July 20, 1998, after which registration increases to $120. Your name tag will identify you as a registrant.

Registration cancellations will only be considered in writing for a full refund until August 10. After that a refund of only 50% will be returned.

You can register in several ways. Either return the enclosed registration form to the 27th International Carrot Conference, c/o I.L. Goldman, Dept. of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, 1575 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A. You may also fax the form to: 608-262-4743, or you may register at our website - http://www.hort.wisc.edu/carrot/cc_register.html

We look forward to your participation in the 27th International Carrot Conference.