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Southern Ohio Women in Ag Conference

Join Us for the 2nd Southern Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference!

📅 Date: April 4, 2025
📍 Location: Bell Manor, Chillicothe, OH
⏰ Time: The program begins at 9:00 AM

Connect, learn, and grow at the Southern Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference! Spend the day networking with fellow women in agriculture while engaging with expert speakers, doing hands-on activities, and attending vendor exhibits.

What to Expect:

🌱 Grant Writing Workshop – Learn from Gwynn Stewart, Assistant Director of Community Development and grant writing author, as she shares strategies for securing funding, crafting strong applications, and building relationships with funders.

📢 Marketing Strategies – Christy Welch and Kate Hornyak, OSU Extension Direct Marketing, will provide insights on engaging your target audience and boosting your business with effective marketing tools.

🚜 From Soil to Success Panel – Hear real-life experiences from local women farmers:

  • Mandy Way (Farmers’ Markets)
  • Dana Workman (Livestock)
  • Liz Fundergurgh (Agronomic Crops)
  • Alanna Reisinger (Floriculture Production)

📷 Snapshot Strategies – Improve your photography skills with Jenny Stoneking and Christy Millhouse (OSU Extension). Learn how to capture eye-catching marketing photos using an iPad, camera, or phone.

💐 Take Home a Floral Creation! – Gain hands-on experience processing tulips into a vase arrangement and layering bulbs for multi-season blooms with daffodils, tulips, and crocuses.

🎟️ Registration: $50 – Sign up at go.osu.edu/womeninagconf by March 28, 2025! Southern Ohio WIA

Join us for a day of learning, networking, and inspiration. We can’t wait to see you there!

Southwest Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference

Join us on April 4, 2025, for the 2nd Southern Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference, located at Bell Manor in Chillicothe, OH.
Keynote – Overcoming Your Fear of Grant Writing
The Grower Panel focuses on the farmers’ market, agronomy, livestock, and floriculture.
Marketing Your Brand
How to take pictures to market your brand through design and editing
Continental breakfast and lunch provided
Vendors and Sponsors that will help support your business
Registration is open, and the cost is $50.
Current sponsors are Kingston Bank, Farm Credit, and Gerber Insurance.
More information and detailed descriptions to follow.

2025 Ohio Woodland Water and Wildlife Conference

Join us for this conference covering topics geared toward natural resource professionals and land managers.

This year, the topics include:

  • Rooted in Ohio: Oak Identification and Proper Site Selection
  • Reintroduction of Ohio’s Fishes of Greatest Conservation Concern
  • Landscape Designs for People and Wildlife

A full listing of talks is available here. Continuing education credits for ISA, SAF, and pesticide credits will be offered—see a listing by talk here.

Registration is now $85 and includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and materials.

Register here.

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:

Forage Resiliency Webinar Series starts March 4, 2025

The Ohio State Integrated Forage Management Team will be offering a three-part Zoom webinar series on forage resiliency to cover information on how to remain resilient to a variety of environmental challenges in forage production systems. Webinars will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month in March, April, and May. Details, including registration information, are as follows:

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