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Twenty-sixth Annual
CTC is supported by: Ohio State University Extension and OARDC
Northwest Ohio Soil & Water Conservation Districts
The Ohio No-till Council
USDA Farm Service Agency
USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
Ohio Department of Agriculture
McIntosh Center Ohio Northern University
Ada, Ohio
March 6-7, 2018
CONSERVATION TILLAGE &
TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
Table of Contents:
March 6th Program
Schedule
3 - 7
Contributors, Sponsors
and Exhibitors 8 - 9
March 7th Program
Schedule 10 - 14
McIntosh Center Floor
Plan & Upcoming events 15
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March 6, 2018 Tuesday
Room A - GENERAL SESSION (**video link to Room B and Chapel)
Moderators: Mark Badertscher, Gary Wilson, Ed Lentz, and Jeff Stachler
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9:00 Welcome and Awards
Ohio Farmer Magazine: Master Farmer of the Year
Ohio Certified Crop Advisers: CCA of the Year
- Randall Reeder, OSU Extension Ag Engineer (retired)
9:30 “From Dirt to Regenerating Our Soils” (SW=0.5)
- David Montgomery, University of Washington
10:15 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY Rosen’s Inc.
10:30 Concurrent sessions begin
Room A - CORN UNIVERSITY
Moderators: Peter Thomison, Amanda Bennett, Gary Wilson, Jeff Stachler, Lee Beers, Debbie Brown, Ed Lentz and Mike Gastier
10:30 Tools for managing nitrogen (CLM=1.5, NM=1.5)
- Newell Kitchen, USDA-ARS, Missouri
12:00 LUNCH IS SPONSORED BY Brookside Consultants of Ohio and A&L Great Lakes Laboratories
1:15 Managing Corn for high yield & environmental stewardship while controlling costs (CM=1.0)
- Jeff Coulter, University of Minnesota (CLM=1.0)
2:15 Managing inputs and planting date for high economic corn yields (CM=1.0)
- Emerson Nafziger, University of Illinois
3:15 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY WillRogersToday.com (professional speaker)
3:35 Corn disease issues and solutions (PM=1.0)
- Pierce Paul, Ohio State University
4:35 Taking a closer look at a key management practice (CM=1.0)
- Peter Thomison, OSU Extension Specialist
5:35 Adjourn
Sponsored by:
DICAMBA TRAINING (PM=1.5)
Both days : 1:00-2:30 Located in the Board Room (upstairs near Room A, see layout in page 15)
All conservation Tillage & Technology Conference services are offered on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to race, color, national origin, religion,
sex, disability, political beliefs, and martial or family status.
Sponsored by:
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March 6, 2018 Tuesday
Room B - Nutrient Management
Moderators: Glen Arnold , Amanda Douridas, Garth Ruff, Sam Custer, Jason Hartschuh, Beth Scheckelhoff, and Eric Richer
8:00 What we learned from our manure drag hose plots in 2017. Plus availability of three manure
sidedress toolbars in 2018. (CLM=1.0, NM=1.0)
- Glen Arnold, OSU
9:00 Staying Safe: Understanding Manure Storage Gases (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5) - Kent McGuire, OSU
9:30 General Session (remote from Room A) (SW=0.5)
- David Montgomery, University of Washington
10:15 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY Rosen’s Inc.
10:30 Legal liability aspects of manure applications (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)
- Peggy Hall , OSU Extension
11:00 Which soils should respond to sulfur applications (CLM=1.0, NM=1.0)
- Steve Culman, OSU Extension
-Sakthi Kumaran Subburayalu, Central State Univ.
12:00 Interseeding cover crops into corn and soybeans (CLM=0.5, CM=0.5)
- Bruce Clevenger, OSU Extension
- John Rethmel, Ohio Farmer
12:30 LUNCH IS SPONSORED BY Brookside Consultants of Ohio and A&L Great Lakes Laboratories
1:45 The good, bad, ugly of manure applications in 2017 (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)
- Kevin Elder, Ohio Department of Agriculture
2:15 Using a spreadsheet to estimate costs of manure; hauling distances (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)
- Terry Mescher, Conservation Engineer, ODA
2:45 Costs of Tanker Compaction vs Drag Hose application (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)
- Jason Hartschuh, OSU
3:15 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY WillRogersToday.com (professional speaker)
3:35 Climate Change, big rains and impact on Lake Erie (CLM=1.0, CM=1.0)
- Aaron Wilson, OSU
4:35 Communicating with your landowners (CLM=0.5, PD=0.5)
- Brian Brandt, American Farmland Trust
5:05 Adjourn
Sponsored by:
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March 6, 2018 Tuesday
Room C - Precision Ag & Digital Technologies
Moderators: John Fulton, Elizabeth Hawkins, Kaylee Port, John Schoenhals, Mark Badertscher, Kent McGuire & Al Gahler
10:30 APPs to support nutrient management for crop production (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)
- Kaylee Port, OSU
11:15 Autonomy in agriculture (CM=1.0)
- Scott Shearer, OSU
12:15 LUNCH IS SPONSORED BY Brookside Consultants of Ohio and A&L Great Lakes Laboratories
1:30 Pinch-row compaction from tractors and planters considering field variability (CM=0.5)
- Andrew Klopfenstein, OSU
2:00 ROI when using technology and data (CM=1.0)
- Jeremy Wilson, Illinois Farmer
3:00 Selecting Ag GIS software (CM=0.5)
- OSU Ag Systems Management Senior Design Team
3:30 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY WillRogersToday.com (professional speaker)
3:50 What we’ve learned from aerial imaging (CM=1.0)
- John Barker, OSU
4:40 Subsurface Placement : opportunities and considerations (NM=0.5)
- Trey Colley, OSU
5:20 VR fertilizer learnings (NM=0.5)
- John Fulton , OSU
5:50 Adjourn
Sponsored by:
Apr. 4, 2018; Ohio No-Till (spring) Field Day, David Brandt Farm, Carroll
Aug. 29, 2018; No-till (summer) Field Day, OSU OARDC, Wooster
Dec. 11, 2018; Ohio No-Till Conf., Der Dutchman, Plain City
Jan. 8-11, 2019; National No-Till Conf., Indianapolis
March 5-6, 2019; Conservation Tillage Conference, Ada
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March 6, 2018 Tuesday
Room Chapel - Healthy Soils for Healthy Waters
Moderators: Jim Hoorman, Alan Sundermeier, Denny Riethman, Bret Margraf, Kent McGuire, Tim Barnes, Vinayak Shedekar, & Brother Nick Renner
Building Soil Health 8:00 Unlocking the secrets of soil: Management principles and strategies for a living ecosystem
- Barry Fisher, Region Soil health Team Leader, USDA-NRCS (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)
8:30 Measuring soil health characteristics (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5) - Rafiq Islam and Alan Sundermeier, OSU
9:00 Building soil health and organic matter with cover crops and no-till (CLM=0.5) -David Brandt, No-Till farmer, Fairfield County
9:30 General Session (remote from Room A) (SW=0.5)
- David Montgomery, U. of Washington
10:15 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY Rosen’s Inc.
10:30 Why is conserving Midwest soil and water resources a global necessity? (CLM=1.0, SW= 1.0)
- Rick Cruse, Iowa State University
11:30 LUNCH IS SPONSORED BY Brookside Consultants of Ohio and A&L Great Lakes Laboratories
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March 6, 2018 Tuesday
Room Chapel - Healthy Soils for Healthy Waters
Moderators: Jim Hoorman, Alan Sundermeier, Denny Riethman, Bret Margraf, Kent McGuire, Tim Barnes, Vinayak Shedekar, & Brother Nick Renner
Regenerative Ag 12:45 The soil health revolution and how innovative farming practices can bring soil back to life
while maintain or improving crop yields. (CLM=1.0, SW=1.0)
- David Montgomery, U. of Washington; David Brandt, No-Till farmer, Fairfield County
1:45 Federal Policy. Moderator : Larry Clemens ,The Nature Conservancy Panelists: (CM=1.0)
- Jim Moseley, former Deputy Secretary, USDA
- Bill Richards, former chief of the USDA-NRCS
- Larry Antosch, Senior Director of Environmental Policy, Ohio Farm Bureau
2:45 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY WillRogersToday.com (professional speaker)
3:05 Managing profitability with sustainable and responsible practices (CM=1.0) - Ken Curtis, Illinois Producer
Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils 4:05 Industry Panel (CM=1.0)
- Larry Clemens, Director of North American Agriculture Program, The Nature Conservancy
“The Midwest Row Crop Collaborative”
- Marco Ugarte, Sustainability Manager, MillerCoors “Purchasing sustainable barley and the
sustainable supply chain”
- Bill Knapke, Environmental Manager, Cooper Farms “Reducing nutrient runoff with turkey
production”
5:35 Adjourn
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"Thanks to major contributors, session and event sponsors."
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"Thanks to exhibitors."
3 Bar Biologics
AgExplore
Ag Info Tech
Agri Energy Resources
Bio-Till
Bird Agronomics
Brookside Consultants of
Ohio
Buckeye Soil Solutions
Bumper Crop Imagery, LLC
C&J Agri-Service
Center Seeds
Certified Crop Advisers
Conklin Corporation
Custom Agri Systems, Inc.
Dekalb/Asgrow
Exactrix
Green Field Ag LLC
KB Seed Solutions
La-Lyn Enterprises
Nachurs
NRCS
Nutech Seed
Precision Agri Services Inc.
Rosen’s Inc.
TKI Crop Vitality
The Andersons
The CISCO Companies
The Nature Conservancy
Valent USA
Walnut Creek Seeds LLC
WintexAgro
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March 7, 2018 Wednesday
Room A - SOYBEAN SCHOOL
Moderators: Harold Watters, Mark Badertscher, Sam Custer, Jeff Stachler, Ed Lentz, Gary Wilson and Laura Lindsey
8:30 Why we grow soybeans in the Corn Belt (CM=1.0) - Emerson Nafziger, Agronomist, University of Illinois
9:30 Late season insect problems (PM=1.0) - John Obermeyer , Purdue University
10:30 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY Rosen’s Inc.
10:45 Key management practices that explain soybean yield gaps across the North Central U.S. - Shawn Conley, University of Wisconsin (CM=1.0)
11:45 LUNCH IS SPONSORED BY Brookside Consultants of Ohio and A&L Great Lakes Laboratories
1:00 Resistant weed management in the dicamba era (PM=1.0) - Bill Johnson, Purdue University
2:00 Economics in the choice between corn and soybeans (CM=1.0)
- Barry Ward, Ohio State University
3:00 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY WillRogersToday.com (professional speaker)
3:20 Variable rate soybeans (CM=1.0)
- Laura Lindsey, Soybean Specialist, OSU Extension
4:20 Adjourn
Sponsored by:
All conservation Tillage & Technology Conference services are offered on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to race, color, national origin, religion,
sex, disability, political beliefs, and martial or family status.
DICAMBA TRAINING (PM=1.5)
1:00-2:30 Located in the Board Room (upstairs near Room A, see layout in page 15)
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March 7, 2018 Wednesday
Room B - Water Quality Research and BMP’s
Moderators: Jocelyn Henderson, Greg LaBarge, Garth Ruff, Bret Margraf, John Schoenhals, & Jason Hartschuh
8:00 Changes in Grand Lake St Marys watershed: Moving towards an improved understanding of
water quality in the region over the past decade (CLM=1.0, SW=1.0)
- Stephen Jacquemin, Wright State University
9:00 Transforming Drainage Project (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)
- Eileen Kladivko, Purdue University
9:30 What the Revised P index will look like (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5) - Libby Dayton, OSU
10:00 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY Rosen’s Inc.
10:20 Blind inlets– Agronomic and Water Quality Performance (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)
- Doug Smith, USDA-ARS
10:50 Western Lake Erie Basin Nutrient Reductions: Goals and programs to get there - Steve Davis, USDA - NRCS (CLM=0.5, SW=1.0)
12:00 LUNCH IS SPONSORED BY Brookside Consultants of Ohio and A&L Great Lakes Laboratories
1:15 Effect of rainfall patterns and ground cover on the intensity of surface runoff and tile
discharge (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5) - Lindsay Pease, USDA-ARS
1:45 Watershed scale water quality impacts of cover crop adaption in a two-stage ditch system - Brittany Hanrahan, USDA-ARS (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)
2:15 4R Nutrient Stewardship Certification Program (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5)
- Mark Fritz, Ohio Agribusiness Association
2:45 Water Quality Tradeoffs when Adopting Conservation Practices (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5) - Doug Smith, USDA-ARS
3:15 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY WillRogersToday.com (professional speaker)
3:35 Inspections and Recordkeeping requirements for Certified Ag Fertilizer Applicators - Greg LaBarge, OSU (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)
4:05 Adjourn
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March 7, 2018 Wednesday
Room Chapel - Healthy Soils for Healthy Waters
Moderators: Alan Sundermeier, Jim Hoorman, Denny Riethman, Debbie Brown, Jessica D’ Ambrosio, Denny Riethman, Brother Nick Renner, Sarah Noggle & Vinayak Shedekar
Precision Nutrient Management
8:00 Using precision agriculture & machinery to enhance production & reduce
environmental risks (CLM=0.5, CM=0.5)
- John Fulton , OSU Extension
8:30 Agricultural systems management & using direct-injection applicator - Guy Swanson, Exactrix Global Systems (NM=0.5) - Bert Bock , TKI Crop Vitality; Dale Bathurst, Producer
9:00 Application of livestock manure to soils to improve N use efficiency (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5) - Emily Duncan, USDA-ARS
9:30 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY Rosen’s Inc.
9:50 Using precision ag & technology to meet 4R certification standards (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5) - Logan Haake, 4R Certified Crop Advisor
10:30 Precision Conservation : Helping farmers make the best conservation decisions (NM=0.5) - Stan Buman, Agren
11:00 Addressing soil test Phosphorus recommendations (CLM=0.5, NM=0.5) - Chad Penn, Soil Scientist, National Soil Erosion Research, USDA-ARS
11:30 LUNCH IS SPONSORED BY Brookside Consultants of Ohio and A&L Great Lakes Laboratories
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March 7, 2018 Wednesday
Room Chapel - Healthy Soils for Healthy Waters
Moderators: Alan Sundermeier, Jim Hoorman, Denny Riethman, Debbie Brown, Jessica D’ Ambrosio, Brother Nick Renner, Sarah Noggle & Vinayak Shedekar
Healthy Water 12:45 Moderator: Jessica D’Ambrosio (CLM=1.5, SW=1.5)
Panel Discussion: Macropores & Earthworms - Frank Gibbs (Retired), NRCS
- Doug Smith, ARS
- Mark Williams, ARS
- Merrin Macrae, University of Waterloo
- Eileen Kladivko, Purdue University
2:15 Improving soil structure, reduce compaction, and reduce nutrient runoff (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)
- Jim Hoorman, USDA-NRCS
2:45 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY WillRogersToday.com (professional speaker)
3:05 Impacts of tile drainage on crop yields and nitrate losses (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5) - Eileen Kladivko, Purdue University
3:35 Best Management Practice to reduce nutrient loading in Ohio (CLM=0.5, SW=0.5)
- Jay Martin, OSU
4:05 Closing thoughts on soil for healthy waters (SW=0.5)
- Barry Fisher, USDA-NRCS
4:35 Adjourn
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March 7, 2018 Wednesday
Room C - Alternative Crops
Moderators: Curtis Young , Al Gahler, Beth Schelckelhoff, and Suzanne Mills-Wasniak
8:30 Hoop house specialty crop production (CM=0.5)
- Brad Bergefurd, OSU South Centers
9:00 Manage woodlots for income (CM=0.5)
- Dave Aspley,OSU
9:30 Barley and hops production (CM=1.0) - Brad Bergefurd, OSU South Centers
- Jamie Arthur, Little Miami Farms
10:30 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY Rosen’s Inc.
10:50 Getting started in honey bees (CM=0.5) - Barb Bloetscher, Ohio Dept. of Agriculture
11:20 Berry production: Blueberries and brambles (CM=1.0) - Gary Gao, OSU South Centers
12:20 LUNCH IS SPONSORED BY Brookside Consultants of Ohio and A&L Great Lakes Laboratories-
Pest Management of the Atypical Pests: Slugs, Voles and more
Moderators: Curtis Young , Al Gahler, Beth Schelckelhoff, & Suzanne Mills-Wasniak
1:35 Slugs in conservation tillage and cover crops: Identification , Biology, and
Management Options (IPM=1.0) - John Obermeyer, IPM Specialist, Purdue University
2:35 Voles, not moles (IPM=0.5)
- Curtis Young, OSU, Van Wert County Extension Educator
3:05 BREAK IS SPONSORED BY WillRogersToday.com (professional speaker)
3:20 Those pesky birds: What can I do? (PM=0.5) - Jeff Pelc, USDA Wildlife Services
3:50 What are the steps in getting a wildlife (deer) damage control permit? (IPM=0.5) - Bob Ford, ODNR Division of Wildlife
4:20 Invasive plant management around the farm (IPM=0.5)
- Curtis Young, OSU
4:50 Adjourn
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Apr. 4, 2018; Ohio No-Till (spring) Field Day, David Brandt Farm, Carroll
Aug. 29, 2018; No-till (summer) Field Day, OSU OARDC, Wooster
Dec. 11, 2018; Ohio No-Till Conf., Der Dutchman, Plain City
Jan. 8-11, 2019; National No-Till Conf., Indianapolis
March 5-6, 2019; Conservation Tillage Conference, Ada