It is now almost two months since you left Landvik for Denmark. Since then we have had more than 250 mm of rainfall - indeed a very difficult harvest season. For more than a week, Hans Johan Kjølsrød, the president for Norwegian seed growers and host for your Norwegian barbeque night, had almost 30 ha of his Poa pratensis seed crops and even more of his potatoes under water, as Lågen, one of the main rivers in eastern Norway, was about 2m higher than usual.

For most of you, time of departure for Norway only a few days ahead. Therefore, a couple of updates:

Arrival
About 15 of you have sent E-mail messages regarding your arrival time at Sandefjord airport. On arrival, you will be met by a person carrying an IHSG sign in the arrival hall. I encourage those who have not sent information to lars.havstad@bioforsk.no to do so, as we don't want to keep you waiting too long in the airport.

At present we are receiving online registrations for the upcoming conference, and as of today we have received more than 40 registrations.

To those of you, who may not have registered yet, please note that an additional fee will be added on registrations received after 1 April.

The conference website (click here) has been updated with a small change in the programme and some general travel information.

Kind regards,

Trygve Aamlid and Birte Boelt

To delegates with presentations at the 6th International Herbage Seed Conference, Gjennestad Norway, 17-20 June 2007

Thank you very much for submitting your papers for the IHSG conference in June. As organizers, we are very pleased and encouraged by the great interest for the conference. Besides the invited speakers, we have received about 60 voluntary papers from a total of 18 countries. This gives expectations that the upcoming conference will be a successful one!

Dear Member of the International Herbage Seed Group

It gives me great pleasure to inform You that information about the 6th International Herbage Seed Conference in Norway, 2007 is now available.

You will find the information on our website: click here.

President’s Column

Welcome to the fourth issue (No. 38) of the electroniconly edition of the International Herbage Seed Group newsletter. Again, those reading it have received notice via e-mail that it was recently posted on the IHSG web site (http://cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu/ihsg/default.htm). Thank you for keeping your membership information current and encouraging your colleagues to do the same. Please continue to invite others to visit our web site and register as members. Presently, we have 238 members from 40 countries.

President’s Column

Welcome to the second issue (No. 36) of the electronic-only edition of the International Herbage Seed Group newsletter.
Again, those reading it have received notice via e-mail that it was recently posted on the IHSG web site (http://

President's Column

As was detailed in my last column, the IHSG is going through a transition period. Much of this transition is rooted in the financial difficulties created by the loss of the Journal of Applied Seed Production, and the subscription fees that supported the newsletter. These could be called “difficult times,” but I prefer to look at it more optimistically. Thus, the challenge is to identify the new opportunities we have given this situation. The new logo introduced on the cover of this issue is both a beginning and an end.