Workshop Registration This workshop will focus on practical manure management for livestock producers and custom applicators, with an emphasis on pit and litter applications.

PARP and CCA credits are being applied for. You must attend the entire event to receive credits.  For CCH credits the participants sign in at the beginning of the program and sign out when program is over.

https://oisc.purdue.edu/pesticide/continuing_certification_program.html

Certified applicators attending an Office of Indiana State Chemist (OISC)Continuing Certification Hour (CCH) program must follow specific attendance and participation rules to earn credit.

Agenda:

10:00 am – Welcome and introduction of guest speakers and panelists.

10:10 am – Fred Whitford: Roadway & Powerline Safety Considerations During Manure Hauling & Application

10:50 – Megan Dresbach, Eric Dresbach, Paul Pottschmidt:      Communicating with Custom Applicators

11:30 – Kevin Erb: Break-out sessions: Interactive manure scenario #1

12:00 – Lunch – Continue with scenarios 2, 3, &4

1:30 – Panel Discussion – Tips and tricks for farmers and custom applicators; question and answer session.

Speakers & Panelists

·       Kevin Erb –U of Wisconsin-Madison Program Manager, Conservation Professional Training Program, Division of Extension Natural Resources Institute

·       Eric Dresbah – W.D. Farms, Manure Management

·       Megan Dresbach – W.D. Farms, organic nutrient by-product recycling company.

·       Charles Grady –Section Chief, Indiana Department of Environmental Management

·       Matt Heckler –Mercer County Ohio SWCD

·       Adam Highley –Mercer County Ohio SWCD

·       Paul Pottschmidt –Pottschmidt Pumping & Agitation, Inc

·       Keri Simpkin –Owner Ag Environmental Systems

·       Fred Whitford –Purdue University, Clinical Engagement Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology

This event is made possible by Indiana’s conservation partners including:

Purdue Extension, Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative(CCSI), Randolph County SWCD and NRCS, Jay County SWCD and NRCS, Indiana Pork.