Twenty sixth Annual CONSERVATION TILLAGE ... - FABE · Northwest Ohio Soil & Water Conservation Districts The Ohio No-till Council Ada, Ohio USDA Farm Service Agency USDA Natural

Twenty-sixth Annual

CTC is supported by: Ohio State University Extension and OARDC

Northwest Ohio Soil & Water Conservation Districts

The Ohio No-till Council

USDA Farm Service Agency

USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service

Ohio Department of Agriculture

McIntosh Center Ohio Northern University

Ada, Ohio

March 6-7, 2018

CONSERVATION TILLAGE &

TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

Table of Contents:

March 6th Program

Schedule

3 - 7

Contributors, Sponsors

and Exhibitors 8 - 9

March 7th Program

Schedule 10 - 14

McIntosh Center Floor

Plan & Upcoming events 15

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March 6, 2018 Tuesday

Room A - GENERAL SESSION (**video link to Room B and Chapel)

Moderators: Mark Badertscher, Gary Wilson, Ed Lentz, and Jeff Stachler

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9:00 Welcome and Awards

Ohio Farmer Magazine: Master Farmer of the Year

Ohio Certified Crop Advisers: CCA of the Year

- Randall Reeder, OSU Extension Ag Engineer (retired)

9:30 “From Dirt to Regenerating Our Soils” (SW=0.5)

- David Montgomery, University of Washington

10:15 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY Rosen’s Inc.

10:30 Concurrent sessions begin

Room A - CORN UNIVERSITY

Moderators: Peter Thomison, Amanda Bennett, Gary Wilson, Jeff Stachler, Lee Beers, Debbie Brown, Ed Lentz and Mike Gastier

10:30 Tools for managing nitrogen (CLM=1.5, NM=1.5)

- Newell Kitchen, USDA-ARS, Missouri

12:00 LUNCH IS SPONSORED BY Brookside Consultants of Ohio and A&L Great Lakes Laboratories

1:15 Managing Corn for high yield & environmental stewardship while controlling costs (CM=1.0)

- Jeff Coulter, University of Minnesota (CLM=1.0)

2:15 Managing inputs and planting date for high economic corn yields (CM=1.0)

- Emerson Nafziger, University of Illinois

3:15 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY WillRogersToday.com (professional speaker)

3:35 Corn disease issues and solutions (PM=1.0)

- Pierce Paul, Ohio State University

4:35 Taking a closer look at a key management practice (CM=1.0)

- Peter Thomison, OSU Extension Specialist

5:35 Adjourn

Sponsored by:

DICAMBA TRAINING (PM=1.5)

Both days : 1:00-2:30 Located in the Board Room (upstairs near Room A, see layout in page 15)

All conservation Tillage & Technology Conference services are offered on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to race, color, national origin, religion,

sex, disability, political beliefs, and martial or family status.

Sponsored by:

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Room B - Nutrient Management

Moderators: Glen Arnold , Amanda Douridas, Garth Ruff, Sam Custer, Jason Hartschuh, Beth Scheckelhoff, and Eric Richer

8:00 What we learned from our manure drag hose plots in 2017. Plus availability of three manure

sidedress toolbars in 2018. (CLM=1.0, NM=1.0)

- Glen Arnold, OSU

9:00 Staying Safe: Understanding Manure Storage Gases (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5) - Kent McGuire, OSU

9:30 General Session (remote from Room A) (SW=0.5)

- David Montgomery, University of Washington


10:30 Legal liability aspects of manure applications (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)

- Peggy Hall , OSU Extension

11:00 Which soils should respond to sulfur applications (CLM=1.0, NM=1.0)

- Steve Culman, OSU Extension

-Sakthi Kumaran Subburayalu, Central State Univ.

12:00 Interseeding cover crops into corn and soybeans (CLM=0.5, CM=0.5)

- Bruce Clevenger, OSU Extension

- John Rethmel, Ohio Farmer


1:45 The good, bad, ugly of manure applications in 2017 (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)

- Kevin Elder, Ohio Department of Agriculture

2:15 Using a spreadsheet to estimate costs of manure; hauling distances (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)

- Terry Mescher, Conservation Engineer, ODA

2:45 Costs of Tanker Compaction vs Drag Hose application (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)

- Jason Hartschuh, OSU


3:35 Climate Change, big rains and impact on Lake Erie (CLM=1.0, CM=1.0)

- Aaron Wilson, OSU

4:35 Communicating with your landowners (CLM=0.5, PD=0.5)

- Brian Brandt, American Farmland Trust

5:05 Adjourn

Sponsored by:

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Room C - Precision Ag & Digital Technologies

Moderators: John Fulton, Elizabeth Hawkins, Kaylee Port, John Schoenhals, Mark Badertscher, Kent McGuire & Al Gahler

10:30 APPs to support nutrient management for crop production (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)

- Kaylee Port, OSU

11:15 Autonomy in agriculture (CM=1.0)

- Scott Shearer, OSU


1:30 Pinch-row compaction from tractors and planters considering field variability (CM=0.5)

- Andrew Klopfenstein, OSU

2:00 ROI when using technology and data (CM=1.0)

- Jeremy Wilson, Illinois Farmer

3:00 Selecting Ag GIS software (CM=0.5)

- OSU Ag Systems Management Senior Design Team


3:50 What we’ve learned from aerial imaging (CM=1.0)

- John Barker, OSU

4:40 Subsurface Placement : opportunities and considerations (NM=0.5)

- Trey Colley, OSU

5:20 VR fertilizer learnings (NM=0.5)

- John Fulton , OSU

5:50 Adjourn

Sponsored by:

Apr. 4, 2018; Ohio No-Till (spring) Field Day, David Brandt Farm, Carroll

Aug. 29, 2018; No-till (summer) Field Day, OSU OARDC, Wooster

Dec. 11, 2018; Ohio No-Till Conf., Der Dutchman, Plain City

Jan. 8-11, 2019; National No-Till Conf., Indianapolis

March 5-6, 2019; Conservation Tillage Conference, Ada

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Room Chapel - Healthy Soils for Healthy Waters

Moderators: Jim Hoorman, Alan Sundermeier, Denny Riethman, Bret Margraf, Kent McGuire, Tim Barnes, Vinayak Shedekar, & Brother Nick Renner

Building Soil Health 8:00 Unlocking the secrets of soil: Management principles and strategies for a living ecosystem

- Barry Fisher, Region Soil health Team Leader, USDA-NRCS (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)

8:30 Measuring soil health characteristics (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5) - Rafiq Islam and Alan Sundermeier, OSU

9:00 Building soil health and organic matter with cover crops and no-till (CLM=0.5) -David Brandt, No-Till farmer, Fairfield County

9:30 General Session (remote from Room A) (SW=0.5)

- David Montgomery, U. of Washington


10:30 Why is conserving Midwest soil and water resources a global necessity? (CLM=1.0, SW= 1.0)

- Rick Cruse, Iowa State University


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Moderators: Jim Hoorman, Alan Sundermeier, Denny Riethman, Bret Margraf, Kent McGuire, Tim Barnes, Vinayak Shedekar, & Brother Nick Renner

Regenerative Ag 12:45 The soil health revolution and how innovative farming practices can bring soil back to life

while maintain or improving crop yields. (CLM=1.0, SW=1.0)

- David Montgomery, U. of Washington; David Brandt, No-Till farmer, Fairfield County

1:45 Federal Policy. Moderator : Larry Clemens ,The Nature Conservancy Panelists: (CM=1.0)

- Jim Moseley, former Deputy Secretary, USDA

- Bill Richards, former chief of the USDA-NRCS

- Larry Antosch, Senior Director of Environmental Policy, Ohio Farm Bureau


3:05 Managing profitability with sustainable and responsible practices (CM=1.0) - Ken Curtis, Illinois Producer

Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils 4:05 Industry Panel (CM=1.0)

- Larry Clemens, Director of North American Agriculture Program, The Nature Conservancy

“The Midwest Row Crop Collaborative”

- Marco Ugarte, Sustainability Manager, MillerCoors “Purchasing sustainable barley and the

sustainable supply chain”

- Bill Knapke, Environmental Manager, Cooper Farms “Reducing nutrient runoff with turkey

production”

5:35 Adjourn

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"Thanks to major contributors, session and event sponsors."

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"Thanks to exhibitors."

3 Bar Biologics

AgExplore

Ag Info Tech

Agri Energy Resources

Bio-Till

Bird Agronomics

Brookside Consultants of

Ohio

Buckeye Soil Solutions

Bumper Crop Imagery, LLC

C&J Agri-Service

Center Seeds

Certified Crop Advisers

Conklin Corporation

Custom Agri Systems, Inc.

Dekalb/Asgrow

Exactrix

Green Field Ag LLC

KB Seed Solutions

La-Lyn Enterprises

Nachurs

NRCS

Nutech Seed

Precision Agri Services Inc.

Rosen’s Inc.

TKI Crop Vitality

The Andersons

The CISCO Companies

The Nature Conservancy

Valent USA

Walnut Creek Seeds LLC

WintexAgro

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March 7, 2018 Wednesday

Room A - SOYBEAN SCHOOL

Moderators: Harold Watters, Mark Badertscher, Sam Custer, Jeff Stachler, Ed Lentz, Gary Wilson and Laura Lindsey

8:30 Why we grow soybeans in the Corn Belt (CM=1.0) - Emerson Nafziger, Agronomist, University of Illinois

9:30 Late season insect problems (PM=1.0) - John Obermeyer , Purdue University


10:45 Key management practices that explain soybean yield gaps across the North Central U.S. - Shawn Conley, University of Wisconsin (CM=1.0)


1:00 Resistant weed management in the dicamba era (PM=1.0) - Bill Johnson, Purdue University

2:00 Economics in the choice between corn and soybeans (CM=1.0)

- Barry Ward, Ohio State University


3:20 Variable rate soybeans (CM=1.0)

- Laura Lindsey, Soybean Specialist, OSU Extension

4:20 Adjourn

Sponsored by:

All conservation Tillage & Technology Conference services are offered on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to race, color, national origin, religion,

sex, disability, political beliefs, and martial or family status.

DICAMBA TRAINING (PM=1.5)

1:00-2:30 Located in the Board Room (upstairs near Room A, see layout in page 15)

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Room B - Water Quality Research and BMP’s

Moderators: Jocelyn Henderson, Greg LaBarge, Garth Ruff, Bret Margraf, John Schoenhals, & Jason Hartschuh

8:00 Changes in Grand Lake St Marys watershed: Moving towards an improved understanding of

water quality in the region over the past decade (CLM=1.0, SW=1.0)

- Stephen Jacquemin, Wright State University

9:00 Transforming Drainage Project (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)

- Eileen Kladivko, Purdue University

9:30 What the Revised P index will look like (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5) - Libby Dayton, OSU


10:20 Blind inlets– Agronomic and Water Quality Performance (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)

- Doug Smith, USDA-ARS

10:50 Western Lake Erie Basin Nutrient Reductions: Goals and programs to get there - Steve Davis, USDA - NRCS (CLM=0.5, SW=1.0)


1:15 Effect of rainfall patterns and ground cover on the intensity of surface runoff and tile

discharge (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5) - Lindsay Pease, USDA-ARS

1:45 Watershed scale water quality impacts of cover crop adaption in a two-stage ditch system - Brittany Hanrahan, USDA-ARS (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)

2:15 4R Nutrient Stewardship Certification Program (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)

- Mark Fritz, Ohio Agribusiness Association

2:45 Water Quality Tradeoffs when Adopting Conservation Practices (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5) - Doug Smith, USDA-ARS


3:35 Inspections and Recordkeeping requirements for Certified Ag Fertilizer Applicators - Greg LaBarge, OSU (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)

4:05 Adjourn

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Moderators: Alan Sundermeier, Jim Hoorman, Denny Riethman, Debbie Brown, Jessica D’ Ambrosio, Denny Riethman, Brother Nick Renner, Sarah Noggle & Vinayak Shedekar

Precision Nutrient Management

8:00 Using precision agriculture & machinery to enhance production & reduce

environmental risks (CLM=0.5, CM=0.5)

- John Fulton , OSU Extension

8:30 Agricultural systems management & using direct-injection applicator - Guy Swanson, Exactrix Global Systems (NM=0.5) - Bert Bock , TKI Crop Vitality; Dale Bathurst, Producer

9:00 Application of livestock manure to soils to improve N use efficiency (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5) - Emily Duncan, USDA-ARS


9:50 Using precision ag & technology to meet 4R certification standards (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5) - Logan Haake, 4R Certified Crop Advisor

10:30 Precision Conservation : Helping farmers make the best conservation decisions (NM=0.5) - Stan Buman, Agren

11:00 Addressing soil test Phosphorus recommendations (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5) - Chad Penn, Soil Scientist, National Soil Erosion Research, USDA-ARS


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Moderators: Alan Sundermeier, Jim Hoorman, Denny Riethman, Debbie Brown, Jessica D’ Ambrosio, Brother Nick Renner, Sarah Noggle & Vinayak Shedekar

Healthy Water 12:45 Moderator: Jessica D’Ambrosio (CLM=1.5, SW=1.5)

Panel Discussion: Macropores & Earthworms - Frank Gibbs (Retired), NRCS

- Doug Smith, ARS

- Mark Williams, ARS

- Merrin Macrae, University of Waterloo

- Eileen Kladivko, Purdue University

2:15 Improving soil structure, reduce compaction, and reduce nutrient runoff (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)

- Jim Hoorman, USDA-NRCS


3:05 Impacts of tile drainage on crop yields and nitrate losses (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5) - Eileen Kladivko, Purdue University

3:35 Best Management Practice to reduce nutrient loading in Ohio (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)

- Jay Martin, OSU

4:05 Closing thoughts on soil for healthy waters (SW=0.5)

- Barry Fisher, USDA-NRCS

4:35 Adjourn

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Room C - Alternative Crops

Moderators: Curtis Young , Al Gahler, Beth Schelckelhoff, and Suzanne Mills-Wasniak

8:30 Hoop house specialty crop production (CM=0.5)

- Brad Bergefurd, OSU South Centers

9:00 Manage woodlots for income (CM=0.5)

- Dave Aspley,OSU

9:30 Barley and hops production (CM=1.0) - Brad Bergefurd, OSU South Centers

- Jamie Arthur, Little Miami Farms


10:50 Getting started in honey bees (CM=0.5) - Barb Bloetscher, Ohio Dept. of Agriculture

11:20 Berry production: Blueberries and brambles (CM=1.0) - Gary Gao, OSU South Centers

12:20 LUNCH IS SPONSORED BY Brookside Consultants of Ohio and A&L Great Lakes Laboratories-

Pest Management of the Atypical Pests: Slugs, Voles and more

Moderators: Curtis Young , Al Gahler, Beth Schelckelhoff, & Suzanne Mills-Wasniak

1:35 Slugs in conservation tillage and cover crops: Identification , Biology, and

Management Options (IPM=1.0) - John Obermeyer, IPM Specialist, Purdue University

2:35 Voles, not moles (IPM=0.5)

- Curtis Young, OSU, Van Wert County Extension Educator


3:20 Those pesky birds: What can I do? (PM=0.5) - Jeff Pelc, USDA Wildlife Services

3:50 What are the steps in getting a wildlife (deer) damage control permit? (IPM=0.5) - Bob Ford, ODNR Division of Wildlife

4:20 Invasive plant management around the farm (IPM=0.5)

- Curtis Young, OSU

4:50 Adjourn

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Apr. 4, 2018; Ohio No-Till (spring) Field Day, David Brandt Farm, Carroll

Aug. 29, 2018; No-till (summer) Field Day, OSU OARDC, Wooster

Dec. 11, 2018; Ohio No-Till Conf., Der Dutchman, Plain City

Jan. 8-11, 2019; National No-Till Conf., Indianapolis

March 5-6, 2019; Conservation Tillage Conference, Ada

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