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OSU Extension to Host Two Field Days
Next Week
By Sam Custer
OSU Extension, Darke County
Precision
Planting in Wauseon
Farmers
and crop consultants interested in
seeing the newest planter technology or precision technology that can
be
retrofitted on existing planters are encouraged to attend the Aug 6th
Northwest
Ohio Precision Ag Technology Day at Fulton Co Fairgrounds in
Wauseon.
The
day will focus exclusively on planters
including seed, steel and related technology. In the morning,
producers
will hear sessions on precision planter agronomics, all the newest
planter
technology, data management and a precision planter panel. In the
afternoon,
Case IH, Horsch, John Deere and Kinze planters will provide live
demonstrations
in a nearby wheat stubble field (conditions permitting).
Event
runs from 8:15 am to 3:30 pm and is free
to the public but registration to richer.5@osu.edu
or 419-337-9210 is needed for accurate lunch count. See www.fulton.osu.edu
for
flyer and more details.
Manure
Science Review in
Bucyrus:
The
annual Manure Science Review, featuring new
and better ways to manage livestock manure and wastewater, takes place
at the Hord
Livestock
farm
south of Bucyrus on Tuesday, August 6th. The site is wheat stubble
field about
a quarter mile west of intersection of State Route 98 and State Route
294.
Morning
educational presentations start at
8:50am and include:
• “Nutrient
Management: Hord Livestock
Overview,” which includes information on managing odors and nutrients
and
brokering liquid manure, by Pat Hord and David Neef of the host farm.
• “Benefits
of the Four Rs” -- the right
nutrient at the right rate, time and place by Steve Prochaska of OSU
Extension.
•
“Nutrient Variations in Stored Manure” and
how to compensate for differences in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium
by
Kendall Stucky of the Crawford, Seneca, Sandusky and Wyandot soil and
water
conservation districts.
•
“Growing the Application Window,” featuring
research on using manure to side-dress corn and increase yields and
manure
storage capacity, by OSU Extension’s Glen Arnold.
•
The “Nitrogen Potential Assessment Test,”
which determines residual nitrogen available to corn during the growing
season,
by Tom Menke of Menke Consulting.
•
“Livestock Stewardship: Telling Our Stories,”
a look at ways to build public trust on nutrient management and water
quality
issues, by David White of the Ohio Livestock Coalition.
The
field demonstrations are from 1-3 p.m. and
will feature mortality composting, edge-of-field bioreactors, cover
crops for
Ohio’s soils, optical nitrogen detection, the new Subsurfer Applicator
for
injecting poultry manure, applicators for liquid manure injection,
rapid
transfer of liquid manure, side-dressing with liquid manure and the
Nutrient
Boom for applying liquid manure to standing crops.
Registration,
which includes a continental
breakfast and lunch, is $30 per person by July 29 and $35 per person
after July
29. To register, participants should send their name, affiliation,
address,
e-mail address, telephone number and payment (with checks made payable
to
OARDC/OSU) to Mary Wicks, OARDC/OSU, 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster, OH
44691.
For
more information, contact Wicks at
330-202-3533 or wicks.14@osu.edu.
An agenda and registration form may be downloaded at http://go.osu.edu/MSR2013
(pdf).
For
more detailed information, visit the Darke
County OSU Extension web site at www.darke.osu.edu,
the OSU Extension Darke County Facebook page or contact Sam
Custer, at 937.548.5215.
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