Get ideas for the coming growing season at CFAES’ Small Farm Conference and Trade Show.
Set for March 29-30 at CFAES’ South Centers in Piketon and with a theme of “Opening Doors for Success,” the event will offer ideas for how your farm can work even better for you.
About 30 sessions in nine tracks will cover a variety of topics, from pawpaws to aquaculture, hydroponics to growing mushrooms, soil health to marketing to a produce cooler you can build yourself—“a cool bot system for the farm.” The first day offers a workshop on hops and a training session on meeting requirements of the Food Safety and Modernization Act.
See the agenda and list of sessions. Find out more about the sessions.
Registration costs vary. Find complete details and register online.
What will Ohio’s recent weather — wet last year, warmish this winter — mean for the coming maple syrup season? It’s one of the topics at January’s Ohio Maple Days program, an educational event for syrup producers set for three dates in three locations.
Ohio’s hop industry is growing by leaps and bounds — the crop goes to make craft beer — and this week many of its members are meeting in Columbus.
CFAES is offering three Hops Field Nights in August. They’re for new and experienced growers; will feature talks and demonstrations on a variety of topics, including drying, fertigation, drip irrigation, mechanical harvesting, a galvanized trellis system, and pest and disease management; will offer tours of the hop fields at each location; and will provide you with helpful handouts, including the Ohio Hop Disease Management Guide. 
Growing barley for malting will be the chief topic when CFAES holds its Small Grains Field Day on June 12 in Wooster. CFAES scientists will share new information about barley varieties, contracts, diseases and more. Malted barley is used to make beer.
