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Supported by Cargill (Success from the Ground Up)

Registration: ($50/person), by Nov. 30.  CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

CCA credits: (To be announced)

(Nutrient Management, Soil & Water Management, Crop Management)

9:00     Welcome and Introductions: Matt Burkholder, Allen County, President, Ohio No-Till Council

9:05     Getting a Good Start & Succeeding for Decades with No-till

Barry Fisher, Soil Health Specialist (retired from NRCS), Indiana farmer

10:00   Drones for Delivering Crop Inputs

John Fulton, Prof., Ag. Engineer. OSU

10:30   Break

10:45   Communicating Ag with Clarity

Melanie Wilt, Shift-ology, Springfield, OH

11:45  Business meeting (elect Board members…)

11:50   Ohio No-Till Awards (Sponsored by Walnut Creek Seeds)

Business/Industry Award: Hirzel Farms

Educator/Researcher Award: Vinayak Shedekar, Ext. Ag. Engineer, OSU

Outstanding No-Till Farmer: Tim Lyden, Logan County

12:00   Lunch 

1:00     Participants’ crop issues/problems (photos by text)

Bret Margraf

1:15     Varying N Rates: How much do you need?

Van Slack, SWCD, Muskingum  (from the All-Ohio Chapter of Soil and Water Conservation Society)

1:45     Panel: Hot Issues, Federal/state programs, High Input Costs

Barry Fisher, Keith Dennis, Vinayak Shekekar and Fred Yoder

2:30     Break

2:45     Scholarship Awards: Adrian Moehl, Amelia Tarbill, Grant Eberhardt, and Wyatt Black.

2:50     Researcher/Educator: Vinayak Shedekar.  Drainage and Irrigation

3:20     My farm story: Tim Lyden

3:35     Business/ Industry: Hirzel Farms  (sales of cover crop seed)

3:50     Final comments

Matt Burkholder, President, Ohio No-till Council

4:00     Adjourn