Month: March 2024

Southern Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference

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Coming up on Thursday April 4th, from 9:30am – 3:30pm is the Southern Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference. Throughout the course of the day attendees will participate in 6 different sessions all focused on assisting women in agriculture. The Southern Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference will take place at Bell Manor – 739 Musgrove Road, Chillicothe, OH 45601 and does cost $50 to attend. Registration is required and can be completed by going to go.osu.edu/womeninagconf.

*See the flyer below for full conference details.

Register for the 30th Ohio Southwest Ohio Perennial School

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Register for the 30th Southwest Ohio Perennial School

OWENSVILLE, Ohio (March 21, 2024) ― Ohio State University Extension Clermont County will host the 30th Southwest Ohio Perennial School on April 11 at 9 a.m. at the Clermont County Fairground’s 4-H Hall, 1000 Locust Street, Owensville, OH.

The event will feature educational presentations with a tradeshow staffed by regional vendors and gardening organizations.

Topics this year will focus on local horticulture concerns and upcoming events. “Wildlife and your Landscape” Marne Titchenell, OSU Extension Wildlife Specialist, “Boxwoods and their Issues” Joe Boggs, OSU Extension Hamilton County, “Cicadas and your landscape” Curtis Young, OSU Extension Van Wert County, “Benefits of natives and trees for pollinators” Carrie Brown, OSU Extension Fairfield County, and a fifth topic to be determined.

Visit go.osu.edu/swoperennial24 to download a registration form. Registration is due on or before April 1, 2024. Registration includes the program, continental breakfast, buffet lunch, refreshments, handouts, and door prize tickets. For additional inquiries, contact Meghan at 513-732-7070.

Clermont Extension is a non-formal education branch of OSU. The office merges the needs of local citizens with OSU’s research through four focus areas: Family & Consumer Sciences, 4-H Youth Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, and Community Development. Call 513-732-7070 for more information.

Agricultural Fertilizer 3 Hour Certification Training

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There’s still time to register for the Agricultural and Fertilizer 3 Hour Certification Training on Friday, March 29, 2024

This meeting will fulfill the three-hour requirement for applicators who need the agricultural fertilizer applictor certification. By taking this training, you will not need to take the ODA test.

Who should attend the training? Fertilizer certification is required if you apply fertilizer (other than manure) to more than 50 acres of agricultural production grown primarily for sale. If you hire a co-op or other custom applicator to make your fertilizer applications, you do not need the certification. This training is for private and commercial applicators.

What will be covered? Best management practices will be the basis of the agricultural fertilizer certification training with a focus on fertilizer applications that have the appropriate rate, timing, placement and source.

Location: OSU Extension Brown County, 325 W State Street, Georgetown, Ohio 45121

Contact: Trevor Corboy, Agriculture and Natural Resources & Community Development Educator, corboy.3@osu.edu, 937-378-6716.

Cost: $30 payable to OSU Extension

Co-hosted by OSU Extension in Brown, Clermont, Highland and Adams Counties

Cloverbud Super Saturday: Bubble Mania

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Calling all Cloverbuds! Join us for the first Cloverbud Super Saturday of the year. Participants will get to design bubble blowers, debate which bubble solution is best, and then put them to the test. This event is FREE for all Cloverbud age youth. (Age 5-7 as of January 1, 2024) Registration is required due to limited space and can be completed by going to: go.osu.edu/cloverbudbubbles

Questions can be directed ot Amanda Perkins at perkins.715@osu.edu or by calling OSU Extension Brown County at 937-378-6716.

For more information, visit brown.osu.edu.

See the flyer below for full details!

Agricultural Fertilizer 3 Hour Certification Training

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Join OSU Extension Brown County on Friday March 29, 2024, from 9:00a.m.-12:00p.m. to become certified to apply fertilizer. Producers that attend this meeting will fulfill the three-hour requirement for applicators who need the agricultural fertilizer applicator certification. Producers that attend this training will NOT need to take the ODA test.

Who should attend? Fertilizer certification is required if you apply fertilizer (other than manure) to more than 50 acres of agricultural production grown primarily for sale. If you hire a co-op or other custom applicator to make your fertilizer applications, you do not need the certification. This training is for private and commercial applicators. 

What will be covered? Best management practices will be the basis of the agricultural fertilizer certification training with a focus on fetilizer applications that have the appropriate rate, timing, placement and source.

Producers wishing to attend can fill out and mail in the registration form (below) and $30 fee to OSU Extension Brown County 325 W. State St. Bldg B., Georgetown, OH 45121.
*See the flyer below for full training class details.

 

Swine Breeding Show – Brown County Junior Fair 2024

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The 2024 Brown County 4-H April 1st Enrollment Deadline is fast approaching. If you have not submitted your enrollments, don’t forget to submit by April 1st. If you need to add/drop any projects, if your profile is approved you can do that yourself until the deadline or contact our office. We share all of this because this email is announcing the return of the Breeding Swine show for the Brown County Jr. Fair. Please see the information below with details about this new but old opportunity!

Breeding Gilt Show NEW for 2024

Breeding gilts will be shown by breed there will also be crossbred classes.

All purebred gilts will require registration papers in the exhibitor’s name or immediate family member (parent/guardian) at the time of check-in. Any purebreds without papers at check-in will be put in a crossbred class.

All breeding gilts must be born from January 1, 2024 to April 30, 2024.

All class winners will compete for Supreme Grand and Reserve Champion and 3-5 overall.

Each exhibitor can tag in 4 breeding gilts and show 2.

Per the Ohio Revised Code/ODA animals may only be used for one project. This means once a gilt is declared at tag-in as either breeding or market, it cannot be switched, and the same animal cannot be shown in both.

The Breeding show will follow the Born and Bred Market show on Thursday.

Breeding Gilts will not be eligible for the junior fair sale.

All eligible junior fair exhibitors are eligible to show in the breeding show. This includes those participating in the Commercial Swine project.

To participate in the Breeding Gilt show you will need to register for the Swine Breeding Project, this is project 140 in 4-H.

 

Commercial Swine Project

The Commercial Swine project is returning for 2024. You can register for this project by selecting Commercial Swine in 4-H Online or specifying it on FFA enrollment paperwork. You will be contacted after the enrollment deadline to confirm participation and indicate the number of hogs you would like to purchase through the program. Price will be based on the feeder pig market at the time of pick-up and all pigs will be sourced by the junior fair board. More details on selection and pick-up dates will be shared with those who register.

If you have any questions specific to the junior fair swine exhibition, please contact the junior fair Swine Superintendent Roger McKinzie at 937-618-0040.

If you have any questions about registering for 4-H or specific projects, please contact our office at 937-378-6716. 

Southwest Ohio Perennial School – April 11, 2024

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Register for the 30th Southwest Ohio Perennial School

OWENSVILLE, Ohio (March 21, 2024) ― Ohio State University Extension Clermont County will host the 30th Southwest Ohio Perennial School on April 11 at 9 a.m. at the Clermont County Fairground’s 4-H Hall, 1000 Locust Street, Owensville, OH.

The event will feature educational presentations with a tradeshow staffed by regional vendors and gardening organizations.

Topics this year will focus on local horticulture concerns and upcoming events. “Wildlife and your Landscape” Marne Titchenell, OSU Extension Wildlife Specialist, “Boxwoods and their Issues” Joe Boggs, OSU Extension Hamilton County, “Cicadas and your landscape” Curtis Young, OSU Extension Van Wert County, “Benefits of natives and trees for pollinators” Carrie Brown, OSU Extension Fairfield County, and a fifth topic to be determined.

Visit https://go.osu.edu/swohperennial24 to download a registration form. Registration is due on or before April 1, 2024. Registration includes the program, continental breakfast, buffet lunch, refreshments, handouts, and door prize tickets. For additional inquiries, contact Meghan at 513-732-7070.

Clermont Extension is a non-formal education branch of OSU. The office merges the needs of local citizens with OSU’s research through four focus areas: Family & Consumer Sciences, 4-H Youth Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, and Community Development. Call 513-732-7070 for more information.