North Carolina State University will be hosting the spring meeting
for Pickle Packers International in Raleigh, NC at the Marriott
Crabtree Hotel. The spring meeting rotates among host locations
each year, and NC State is honored to host the meeting in 2001.
Posters will be set up on Wednesday at 8 am and taken down at
5 pm. They can be viewed before and after the oral presentations,
and during breaks.
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Time
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Title / Event (with link to abstract)
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Speaker (Affiliation)
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Monday, April 9
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9:00 am
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Committee meetings (executive, R&D)
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Richard Hentschel (PPI)
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1:00 pm
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Golf tournament (sponsored by Asgrow)
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Richard Hentschel (PPI),
Richard Maloney (Seminis)
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5:00 pm
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Registration (Crabtree Marriott)
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Richard Hentschel (PPI)
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7:00 pm
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Reception and PPO Awards (cash bar)
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Richard Hentschel (PPI)
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Tuesday, April 10, Morning
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7:00 am
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Registration (Crabtree Marriott)
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Richard Hentschel (PPI)
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8:00 am
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Breakfast: Presentation by PPI President,
Washington
update by PPI Counsel
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Jon Gallo (DeGraffenreid), Richard Silverman
(PPI)
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9:00 am
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Session 1: New Genetics and Technology
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Todd
Wehner (NCSU),
Gerald
Holmes (NCSU)
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9:05 am
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Welcome
and college overview: Dean, College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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James
Oblinger (NCSU)
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9:10 am
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Welcome
and department overview: Head,
Department of Horticultural Science
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Thomas
Monaco (NCSU)
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9:15 am
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Genomics
to solve agricultural problems: nematodes as an example
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David
Bird (NCSU)
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9:30 am
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Bioinformatics
and cucumber improvement
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Bruce
Weir (NCSU)
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9:45 am
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The
search for high yielding cucumbers
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Nischit
Shetty and Todd
Wehner (NCSU)
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10:00 am
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Using
precision technologies such as GPS and GIS in managing pickle
production
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Ronnie
Heiniger (NCSU)
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10:15 am
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Break
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-
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10:45 am
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Session 2: Crop Production and Protection
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Todd
Wehner (NCSU),
Gerald
Holmes (NCSU)
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10:45 am
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Weed
management in cucumbers
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David
Monks and Roger Batts (NCSU)
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11:00 am
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Disease
control strategies in pickle production
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Gerald
Holmes (NCSU)
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11:15 am
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Pickle
insect management: present and future
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Kenneth
Sorensen (NCSU)
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11:30 am
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Minimum
tillage for pickle production
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Jonathan
Schultheis, Deanna
Osmond, Gerald
Holmes and Bill
Jester (NCSU)
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11:45 am
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Lunch (on your own)
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-
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Tuesday, April 10, Afternoon
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1:15 pm
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Session 3: Field trip (bus for 125 people?)
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Jonathan
Schultheis
(NCSU)
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2:30 pm
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Bag-in-box system at Clinton Research Station
CANCELED DUE TO QUARANTINE
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Henry
Fleming (USDA-NCSU)
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3:30 pm
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Tour Dean Pickle (Faison)
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Eddie Quill (Dean Foods)
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5:00 pm
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Tour Mt. Olive Pickle (Mt. Olive)
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Bill Bryan (Mt.
Olive Pickle)
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6:00 pm
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Dinner: Pig pickin'
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Mt.
Olive Pickle Co.
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8:30 pm
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Return to hotel
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Wednesday, April 11, Morning (with posters)
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8:00 am
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Breakfast
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-
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8:30 am
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Breakfast talk: The
new U.S. Vegetable Laboratory building - opportunities and
challenges
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Claude Thomas (U.S.
Vegetable Laboratory)
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9:15 am
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Spouse tour: JC
Raulston Arboretum (2 hours approx.)
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Richard Hentschel (PPI),
Bob
Lyons (NCSU
Arboretum)
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9:15 am
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Session 4: Food Science and Technology
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Henry
Fleming (USDA-NCSU),
Paul LeClerc (Bicks Pickles)
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9:30 am
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Microbiology
of pickled vegetables
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Fred
Breidt (USDA-NCSU)
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9:45 am
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Bulk
preservation of vegetables without fermentation
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Roger
McFeeters (USDA-NCSU)
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10:00 am
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Pilot
system for process-ready brined cucumbers
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Henry
Fleming (USDA-NCSU)
and Ervin Humphries (NCSU)
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10:15 am
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Break (visit posters)
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-
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10:45 am
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Optimization
of processing conditions for bag-in-box technology
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Oladiran Fasina (USDA-NCSU)
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11:00 am
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Proposed
commercial unit for bag-in-box technology
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Wilfried Thelan (Niko)
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11:15 am
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Bulk
bag composition / options for the pickle industry
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Stephen Duchon (Scholle Custom Packaging)
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11:30 am
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Lunch (on your own): Visit posters,
taste panel
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Wednesday, April 11, Afternoon (with
posters)
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1:00 pm
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Session 4 (continued)
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Henry
Fleming (USDA-NCSU)
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1:15 pm
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Thermal
and alternative processing technologies
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K.P. Sandeep (NCSU)
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1:30 pm
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Regulation
of cucumber pickle curing
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Ron
Buescher (Univ.
Arkansas)
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1:45 pm
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Session 5: Product
Sourcing in the Pickle Industry
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Edmund
Estes (NCSU),
John Cates (Addis Cates)
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2:00 pm
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Improving
mechanical harvesting systems in Delaware
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James Adkins and Ed
Kee (Univ.
Delaware)
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2:15 pm
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Understanding
production and harvesting costs for mechanical harvesting
systems for pickling cucumbers
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Ed
Kee and James Adkins (Univ.
Delaware)
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2:45 pm
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Hand labor
issues in North Carolina
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Stan Eury (NC Growers Assoc.)
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3:00 pm
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Break (visit posters)
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3:30 pm
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Importation
of raw product to manufacturers in the U.S.
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Lou Rosenmayer (MJ Rosenmayer Co.)
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3:45 pm
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Importation
of raw products from abroad
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Manik Veerakumar (Montrose International
Group)
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4:00 pm
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Importation
of finished products from abroad
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Guillermo Brun (Brun Foods, SACV)
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4:15 pm
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Sourcing
of raw materials for the pickle industry - U.S. processors'
perspectives
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Larry Graham (Mt.
Olive Pickle) and Mike Wuller
(Daltons
Best Maid Products)
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4:30 pm
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Panel discussion
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All session speakers
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5:30 pm
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Break (prepare for reception)
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6:00 pm
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Hosted reception
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-
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7:00 pm
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Association Dinner / Social
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Band: Jewel
Tones (Raleigh)
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Thurdsay, April 12, Morning
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Have a safe journey home!
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PPI
Spring Meeting at NC State