Save the date: 100th Anniversary Cumberland Shenandoah Fruit Workers Conference 2024
Cumberland-Shenandoah Fruit Workers Conference
The 100th Annual Cumberland-Shenandoah Fruit Workers Conference will be held Thursday and Friday, December 5 & 6th, 2024 at the Hilton Garden Inn, 65 Priority Dr. Martinsburg, WV. Note the new location!
The agenda will feature the Call of the States, Call of the Industry, and a Plenary Session with the keynote presentations highlighting how the apple industry has changed over the years. Following the Plenary Session, we will have our second-annual student competition presentations (all consecutively so that everyone may attend). Thereafter, we will have a mixer and awards for the winning presentations. As we did last year, we will select the best student presentation under each category (i.e., horticulture, plant pathology, and entomology). We will provide a $300 award to each of the three student winners. Please encourage your students to submit meeting abstracts 3 weeks prior to the conference date (by November 14 at the latest), to be eligible for the competition.
On Day 2, we will have three concurrent presentation sessions on horticulture, entomology, and plant pathology as well as our business meeting. Presentation topics shall reflect our research and/or extension efforts concerning fruit crops. The presentation format will be 10 to 12 minutes for content, and 3 to 5 minutes for questions, for a total of 15 minutes. A/V equipment for PowerPoint presentations will be available.
The conference website to register for the
meeting, reserve hotel rooms, and submit presentation requests and abstracts
will be up shortly. The early-bird registration fee will be $100 per
attendee if you register by Wednesday, November 6th. Online registration
after November 6th will increase to $150, and finally, the registration
fee will be $200 at the door. Discounted rate hotel accommodations
will be available at the Holiday Inn – Winchester.
Hotel Information: Reservations may be made for arrivals as early as
Wednesday, December 4 and departures as late as Saturday, December 7, 2024.
The Room Block will remain open until it is sold out or until it closes on
November 14, 2024, whichever occurs first.
Please use the link below to make your reservations with the special rate at
your earliest convenience. If you would need to cancel a reservation,
Hilton's cancellation policy allows you to cancel a reservation made within the
Room Block 48 hours or more before your day of arrival, with no penalty or
cancellation charge.
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If you would prefer to make your reservations by phone, please feel free to
contact the Hotel directly at 304-263-0101 and reference the Cumberland
Shenandoah Fruit Workers Conference and your
group code CSF in order to receive the Room Block discounted rate.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone, not on the list but would be interested in attending. I look forward to seeing everyone at our gala 100th Anniversary Cumberland-Shenandoah Fruit Workers Conference.
c/o
Steve Bogash, President 2024 CSFWC