Understanding Your Manure's Value

Winter Ag Series

Topics include: weed management, understanding your manure's value, and strategizing for spring.

March 20, 2024

Wednesday6 - 8 PM

Learn about how to understand and accurately credit your manure values within a nutrient management plan, innovative manure application methods, and why utilizing manure can be more sustainable than fertilizer in the future.

Dinner and drinks are on your own - order off the menu and enjoy your food while listening to the speakers and chatting with other farmers.

Plank Road Tavern

236 State Highway 53 McCutchenville, OH 44844
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RSVPs are required and space is limited!

Deadline to RSVP is March 13th.

Cameron Mills

Cass County SWCD Supervisor

Cameron speaks nationally and internationally on farm operation diversification. His multi-generational family farm integrates a multi-layered approach of practices with a focus on soil rejuvenation. Mills Family Farm raises a variety of items, from soybeans and corn to beef and pork.

Laura Johnson

Director of the National Center for Water Quality Research

At the NCWQR, long-term monitoring of streams and rivers is used to examine the influence of human activities on water quality. Laura is best known for research examining the linkages between agricultural runoff and harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie.

Glen Arnold

OSU Field Specialist - Manure Nutrient Management

Glen conducts field research on using liquid livestock manure to replace commercially purchased fertilizer on wheat and corn. Capturing the value of the nutrients in the manure can help pay for the additional manure hauling expense.

Please register by contacting our office at:

(419) 447-7073

[email protected]

Shop Talk: Strategizing for Spring

April 4, 2024

Thursday5-8

Learn from local farmers - how they plan for spring planting (and their backup strategies).

Dinner and drinks will be provided.

Powell Family Farm

2107 N SR 19 Republic, OH 44867
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RSVPs are required and space is limited!

Deadline to RSVP is March 27th.

Please register by contacting our office at:

(419) 447-7073

[email protected]

Tim Norris

Knox County, Ohio

Tim is an award winning no-tiller from central Ohio with expertise on the practical applications and benefits of precision ag technology for no-tillers. He will discuss the benefits of adding wheat back into his cropping rotation and how he’s been able to “grow” nitrogen after his wheat crop. You’ll learn why wheat is part of a whole-farm management system and how wheat positively changes the soil.

Eric Powell

Scipio Twp

Eric Powell is a self-employed farmer and raises corn, soybeans, and wheat alongside his father. He enjoys thinking outside the box in the fields and in the shop. He likes to engineer and build new equipment to customize his operation and to constantly adjust the way he manages inputs.

Eric Eberhard

Thompson Twp

Eric has experience as a nutrient management technician, an agronomist, and currently raises corn, soybeans, wheat, and cattle in the northeast corner of the county. His family are long-term no-till and cover crop farmers that combine a multi-layered approach of practices with a focus on soil health.

Winter Ag Series