Ohio No-Till Conference, Plain City, OH

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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