Tri-State High Tunnel School

Friday, March 14, 2025
9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Eastern
Cost: $25 per person
Pesticide Credits Pending

Register: go.osu.edu/htschool

Join us for an exciting new endeavor: the Tri-State High Tunnel School. This school is focused on high tunnel production and offers information to benefit commercial growers, beginning farmers, and educators, among others. Lunch is included with your registration.

Join us in person at one of several host locations:

Ohio – Piketon, Chillicothe, Wooster, Tiffin

Indiana – Goshen, Richmond

Michigan – Ann Arbor

Hosted by Extension Specialists and Educators from Michigan State University, Purdue University, and The Ohio State University.

QUESTIONS: Bradford Sherman (sherman.1473@osu.edu)

 

Event Sponsors:

Ohio Agroforestry Summit

Agroforestry is the intentional combination of trees and shrubs with other agricultural products. That could be planting trees in your pasture, growing crops between rows of nut trees, cultivating medicinal plants in your woods, and many other land management practices!

Friday, March 7, 2025

9:00 am

Shisler Conference Center, 1860 Madison Avenue, Wooster, OH 44691

Register at go.osu.edu/AFsummit

Register Now for the January 9-10 Ohio State Organic Grains Conference

Registration is open for the 3rd annual Ohio State Organic Grains Conference, January 9-10, 2025, at Kalahari Resorts & Conventions in Sandusky, Ohio. The conference offers programming for experienced organic growers, growers transitioning to or considering organic, and consultants or educators who support these growers.

“Attendance last year was encouraging,” says conference director Eric Richer. “There’s a growing interest in organic production and practices. We’re pleased to move to a larger venue that allows organic farm equipment to be displayed at our trade show and more room for concurrent sessions and networking.”

Featured speakers for 2025 include Erin Silva, University of Wisconsin-Madison State Extension Specialist in Organic and Sustainable Cropping Systems; Damon DeSutter of DeSutter Farms in Attica, Ind.; Osler Ortez, Ohio State Corn and Emerging Crops Specialist; and Sophie Rivest-Auger, Organic Field Crop Advisor for Quebec’s Centre for Expertise and Transfer in Organic and Local Agriculture.

Additional farmers, researchers, and educators from Ohio and beyond will round out two full days of agronomic and farm management sessions. Topics for this year include interseeding cover crops in organic corn, flame cultivation, the use of biological products in organic production, setting up weed control equipment for success, nitrogen credits from cover crops and manure, and a market end-users panel.

The conference is presented by Ohio State University Extension’s Farm Office and Ohio State’s Organic Food & Farming Education and Research (OFFER) program. The event also receives input from a planning committee of Ohio State staff and researchers, educators from organic non-profits, and organic farmers, including Bridget Burgess. Burgees is the current president of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s Organic Grain Growers Chapter and head of seed cleaning, compost operations, and sales at Hirzel Farms in Luckey, Ohio. She especially encourages growers new to organic to attend the January event.

“Any entry-level organic or transitioning farmer would definitely benefit from time spent listening and networking with the growers at this conference,” says Burgess. “These are growers who were doing organic before it was cool,” she adds.

Pre-registration is $140 per person through December 6 and $175 from December 7 through January 3. Continuing education credits will be available for Certified Crop Advisors. For more information, visit go.osu.edu/OrganicGrains.

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Fall Fencing School

Fencing School fulfills need for small ruminant producers | College NewsOrganized and Sponsored by the Kentucky Forage and Grassland Council, UK Cooperative Extension Service, and the Master Grazer Program. This program is designed for producers and agricultural professionals to learn the newest fencing methods and sound fencing construction through a combination of classroom and hands‐on learning.

WHAT: Participants will learn how to install fixed-knot woven wire and electrified smooth high-tensile fencing
WHEN: November 14, 2024
WHERE: GREENACRES Lewis Township, 7597 OH‐505, Felicity, OH 45120

COST: $35/participant ‐‐ includes a notebook, refreshments, safety glasses, hearing protection, and a catered lunch

Registration DEADLINE: 2 weeks prior to the workshop

ONLINE Registration with Credit Card: https://2024FallFencingSchool.eventbrite.com

FLYER

Cucurbit Field Nights

Join us to tour research plots and hear updates from Extension specialists on a variety of topics, including pumpkin management, squash bug thresholds, the use of season-long row covers, watermelon pollination, melon variety evaluation, and more.

These events will also showcase a hands-on scouting and diagnostic clinic for growers to fine-tune their pest management strategies. Light refreshments will be provided.

Cucurbit
Research Update | Pest Scouting Clinic

Flyer

Tuesday, August 27
North Central Research Station
1165 Gonawein (On OH 53 south of Fremont)
Fremont, Ohio 43420

Tuesday, September 3
OSU South Centers
1864 Shyville Road
Piketon, Ohio 45661


Time:
5:30-8 p.m. Eastern
Cost: Free
Register:  go.osu.edu/cucurbits or call 614-247-9680

QUESTIONS: Bradford Sherman (sherman.1473@osu.edu)

To request accommodations that will help you participate fully in this in-person event, share your requests during registration or contact Bradford Sherman.

 

This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under agreement number 2023-38640-39573 through the North Central Region SARE program under project number ONC24-155. USDA is an equal-opportunity employer and service provider. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.