THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25th
Room A General Session video link to Room B
9:30 Opening and Welcome
Randall Reeder, OSU Extension Ag. Engineer
9:40 No-till, carbon sequestration, and climate change legislation
Ernie Shea, 25x25; Bill Richards, CoChair 25x25; and Matt
Roberts, OSU Extension Ag. Economist
10:50 Food & Agriculture and its impact on Ohio’s economy
Bobby Moser, OSU V-P, Agriculture; Steve Slack, Director,
OSU-OARDC; Keith Smith, Director, OSU Extension
11:15 Stand Establishment in No-Till Corn: The First Step to Higher Yields
Bob Nielsen, Purdue
12:00 Lunch
Thursday afternoon
(four concurrent sessions)
Room A Corn University Presented by Dekalb/Asgrow
Featuring four Midwest Extension Corn Specialists
1:15 Reaching 300 bu/acre
Roger Elmore, Iowa State University
2:15 Managing continuous corn – tillage, residue, and nitrogen
Emerson Nafziger, University of Illinois
3:15 Break
3:35 Ear Development in Corn and Associated Problems
Bob Nielsen, Purdue
4:35 Selecting hybrids for performance and profit
Peter Thomison, OSU
5:35 Corn – All-Star panel discussion
6:35 Adjourn
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26th (four concurrent sessions)
Room A Crop management & Soybean School
8:30 Strip-till
Mike Petersen, Nebraska (formerly with NRCS)
9:30 Strip-till farmer panel
Todd McGuire, farmer, Champaign County, & others)
10:00 Tillage, drainage, and crop rotation effect on soil quality
Alan Sundermeier, OSU Extension, Wood County
10:30 Break
Soybean School (Co-sponsored by Seed Consultants)
Moderator: Harold Watters
10:45 Weed management for Soybeans,
Mark Loux OSU Extension Weed Scientist
11:30 Soybean Disease Impact on Yield
Dennis Mills, OSU Extension & RA
12:00 Lunch
1:00 The Challenge of Doubling Soybean Yields
Vince Davis, Soybean Specialist, University of Illinois
2:00 Impact of Stress on Soybean Yield
Shawn Conley, Soybean Specialist, University of Wisconsin
3:00 Break
3:15 Inputs to Maximize Soybean Profit/Acre - On-Farm Research,
Bruce Clevenger, OSU Extension, Defiance County
3:45 Drill vs. Planter; + Twin Row: On-farm Research
Wes Haun, OSU Extension, Logan County; John Smith, OSU
Extension Auglaize County
4:15 Relay Intercropping of Soybeans into Wheat
Steve Prochaska, OSU Extension, Crawford County
4:45 Adjourn
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Room CHAPEL Nutrient/ Manure Management
Certified Livestock Manager (CLM) training is included in this session. Other topics, marked with (CLM), also qualify for recertification
1:15 Sidedress manure in corn with dragline
Walter Manders, farmer and Alan Sundermeier, OSU Ext.,
Wood County
1:45 Bio-gas production from manure
Steve Baertsche, OSU Extension, retired
2:15 Rules and Regs for manure mgt
Kevin Elder, Ohio Dept of Agriculture
3:15 Break
3:35 Nutrient mgt standards 590
Doug Deardorf and Mark Scarpitti, USDA-NRCS
4:05 Manure Mgt & Handling
Kevin Elder
4:35 Nutrient mgt standards 633
Doug Deardorf and Mark Scarpitti
5:05 Emergency Planning & Response
Kevin Elder
6:05 Value of manure nutrients NMW
Amanda Meddles, OSU Extension
6:35 Adjourn |
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Room CHAPEL Nutrient Management
(Includes Certified Livestock Manager training credits)
8:30 N-cycle, where inhibitors work & why sometimes they don't
(CLM)
Robert Mullen, OSU Extension Specialist
9:30 Yield components; response to N timing and rate (CLM)
Keith Dietrick, OSU Grad Student
10:00 Break
10:15 PSNT + (CLM)
Laura Bast, Michigan State University
11:15 Science, Stats and production reality
Robert Mullen
11:45 Lunch
1:00 Wheat N response timing and source
Ed Lentz, OSU Extension, Seneca County
2:00 N transformations and losses (CLM)
Brad Joern, Purdue University
3:00 Break
3:15 Foliar manganese on soybeans
Jim Camberato, Purdue University
4:15 P task force (CLM)
Kevin Elder, Ohio Dept of Agriculture
5:15 Adjourn
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Room B Soil, Water and Biofuels
1:15 No-till and carbon sequestration (con’d) Ernie Shea,
Bill Richards, and Matt Roberts
1:45 Grains outlook for 2010 Matt Roberts
2:15 Sweet sorghum for ethanol
Danielle Bellmer, Oklahoma State U.
3:15 Break
3:35 Gasification of native grasses for ethanol
Danielle Bellmer
4:05 Increasing Efficiency of P to improve N use (CLM)
Guy Swanson, Spokane, WA
4:35 Opener selection to improve nutrient efficiency and yield
Guy Swanson, Spokane, WA
5:05 Needed: Improved nutrient management on land draining into
Lake Erie
5:35 Soil Science Certification
Matt Deaton, Certified Soil Scientist, ODNR, Eaton
6:35 Adjourn
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Room B Cover Crops
8:30 Special EQIP funds to Improve Water Quality and Nutrient
Management
Mark Scarpitti, USDA-NRCS
9:00 Using Legumes to Increase Soil Nitrogen in Northwest Ohio
Alan Sundermeier, OSU Extension, Wood County
9:30 Nutrient Benefits from Cover Crops (CLM)
Rafiq Islam, OSU Soil Scientist; and Jim Hoorman, OSU Extension,
Mercer County
10:00 Using a Cover Crop Selector to Improve Nutrient Management
(CLM) Dean Baas, Michigan State University
10:30 Break
10:45 Understanding Soil Compaction and Water Infiltration (CLM)
Jim Hoorman
11:15 Cover Crops to Improve Water Quality, Darke and Miami County
Research & Demonstration (CLM), Greg McGlinch, Darke SWCD
11:45 Using Cover Crops to Transition to No-till and Improve Water
Quality Joel Myers, Pennsylvania
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Soil Microbes/Innoculation for Nutrients in Cover Crops
Dave Robison, Cisco
2:00 Using Cover Crops to Improve No-till, Soil Structure, and Water
InfiltrationRay Archuleta, USDA-NRCS, Greensboro, NC
2:30 Cover Crops for Forage to Improve Water Quality
Gary Wilson, OSU Extension, Hancock County
3:00 Break
3:15 Using Cover Crops with Manure (CLM)
Ray Archuleta
3:45 Cover Crops and Soil Fertility (Farmer Panel) (CLM)
Dave Brandt, Howard Weller and Dave McNeilen
4:45 Adjourn
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Room C Advanced Scouting Techniques
(Moderator: Harold Watters, OSU Extension, Champaign Co. & Agronomic Crops Team Co-chair)
1:15 On-line First Detector Training for National Plant
Diagnostic Network Bridget Meiring and Nancy Taylor, OSU
Plant and Pest Diagnostics Clinic
1:45 Environmental Assessments –scouting to avoid disaster
(CLM) Roger Bender, OSU Extension, Shelby County
2:15 Veris as an analysis tool (CLM)
Cecelia Lokai-Minich, Integrated Ag Services
2:45 Break
3:05 Early Season crop emergence problems to Mid-Season
crop issues
- Part I. Denny Wickham, Pioneer;
- Part II. Troy Putnam, Dekalb/Asgrow
4:35 Soybean Cyst Nematodes in Ohio & SDS
Bridget Meiring
5:05 Weed management issues
Dave Scheiderer, Integrated Ag Services
5:35 Ag Crops scouting & reporting
Harold Watters
6:05 Adjourn
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Room C Planters and Precision Ag
8:30 Planter & Drill Adjustment for peak performance
Bill Lehmkuhl, Precision Agri-Services
9:30 Planter & Drill Adjustment (repeat)
10:30 Break
10:45 Precision guidance systems for auto steer
Ryan Oehler, Ag Leader
11:15 Intro to RTK systems
Tim Stombaugh, Extension Ag. Engineer, Univ. of Kentucky
11:45 Considerations for Variable rate seeding
Matt Darr, Ag. Eng., Iowa State
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Improving the Uniformity of Spray Application
Scott Shearer, Chair, Biosystems and Ag. Eng. Dept., U. of
Kentucky
2:30 RTK networks
Dusty Sonnenberg, Consultant, and others
3:30 Break
3:45 Ag. Uses of Statewide Ohio DOT CORS networks
Matt Darr & Tim Stombaugh
4:45 Adjourn
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