VIRGINIA CHRISTMAS TREE GROWERS ASSOCIATION Inside this Issue: In Memory of Ray Scott ─ 2 Christmas Tree Contest Facts & Myths ─ 3 President’s Message ─ 4 Annual Conference Schedule ─ 6 National Updates ─ 11-12 Meeting Registration ─ 13 Auction Donation ─ 14 Tree & Wreath Rules ─ 15 Tree/Wreath Score Sheet ─ 18 Tree/Wreath Entry Form ─ 19 NCTA Contest ─ 20 Buy/Selling Boxwood ─ 20 Invasives on Your Farm? ─ 20 Obituary - Barksdale ─ 21 Are You on Facebook ─ 21 Swinging Bridge Christmas Tree
Volume 4, Issue 3
Summer 2014
The VCTGA 2014 Summer Conference “Real Value for the Money”
Farm & Scott Family ─ 19
Advertisers Alpha Nursery ─ 5 Cherokee Mfg. ─ 8 Bosch’s Countryview Nursery ─ 10 Kelco Industries ─ 12 Tim Mitchell’s Yule Stand System ─ 17 Riverside Enterprises ─ 20 Tree Teck ─ 20 VCTGA Tree Tags ─ 21 VCTGA Marketing ─ 22 Wagoner’s Fraser Knoll ─ 24
Farm Tour Hosts: Moose Apple Christmas Tree Farm Topics useful to new and experienced growers • Increase Sales through Customer Awareness of Live Tree Benefits • Maximize Tree Nutrition and Soil Test Analysis • Tree Farm Risks and Management with Agritourism • Field Talks and Consultation with the Experts • Scholarship Auction in Memory of Ray Scott
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