Farm Science Review places emphasis on ideas, innovation

You know that the Delaware County Fair is just around the cor­ner when we start talk­ing about the Farm Sci­ence Review. Seems that this sum­mer has flown by as we are fast approach­ing the first day of school for our kids and foot­ball two-a-days have been going on. We have sur­vived the heav­i­est rains in our state in more than a cen­tury, and the crops over­all are look­ing pretty good around the county.

This year’s 49th Farm Sci­ence Review theme, “Where Farm­ers Go to Dream,” will put the empha­sis on agri­cul­tural inno­va­tion, with an effort to spark new ideas and long-term vision for farm­ers and the agri­cul­tural industry.

Once again the Review will be held at the Molly Caren Agri­cul­tural Cen­ter in Lon­don, the FSR is set for Sept. 20 to 22. There will be field demon­stra­tions accord­ing to Chuck Gam­ble, Farm Sci­ence Review Manager.

“We were able to have all the corn and soy­beans planted by June 8, so it’s pos­si­ble depend­ing on the weather that the crops may be ready for har­vest dur­ing the Review,” he said. “Regard­less of whether we’re har­vest­ing at that time, atten­dees will see field demon­stra­tions, such as tillage and GPS.”

In addi­tion to the field demon­stra­tions, atten­dees will also be able to see:

- The lat­est in agri­cul­tural technology

- Live­stock han­dling equipment

- Grain and machine stor­age and other out­build­ing structures

- Nat­ural resource prac­tices and pro­grams at the Gwynne Con­ser­va­tion Area

- Ohio Land Improve­ment Con­trac­tors Asso­ci­a­tion demon­stra­tions of drainage sys­tems, if har­vest takes place.

More than 600 exhibitors will have their prod­ucts and ser­vices on dis­play to help farm­ers learn about and adopt the newest tech­nolo­gies to improve their on-farm effi­ciency and profitability.

Tick­ets are avail­able here at our office, 149 N. San­dusky St., until Sept. 16 for $5. It will be $8 at the gate. Chil­dren age five and younger are admit­ted for free.

The Farm Sci­ence Review is spon­sored by the Col­lege of Food, Agri­cul­tural, and Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ences, Ohio State Uni­ver­sity Exten­sion, and the Ohio Agri­cul­tural Research and Devel­op­ment Cen­ter. It attracts more than 140,000 vis­i­tors from all over the coun­try and Canada for three days to learn the lat­est in agri­cul­tural research, con­ser­va­tion, fam­ily and nutri­tion and gar­den­ing and landscape.

Screen­ing com­mon and giant rag­weed pop­u­la­tions for her­bi­cide resistance

Accord­ing to Mark Loux, OSU Exten­sion Spe­cial­ist, to get a bet­ter idea of the cur­rent her­bi­cide resis­tance sit­u­a­tion in Ohio, they will be screen­ing rag­weed pop­u­la­tions for response to glyphosate and other her­bi­cides this fall/winter in the greenhouse.

“We will be col­lect­ing seed and solic­it­ing seed col­lec­tions from fields where the response to glyphosate has decreased over time, or where resis­tance is sus­pected,” said Loux.

If you have a field or fields where this is the case, or col­lect mature seed and send to OSU. Fields must have been treated with an appro­pri­ate glyphosate pro­gram to begin with. This essen­tially means that the field was weed free at the time of plant­ing, and glyphosate was then applied poste­mer­gence one or more times at a rea­son­able weed size. Fields where rag­weed sur­vived burn­down, or where glyphosate was used as the only burn­down her­bi­cide this year do not gen­er­ally qual­ify, since weeds were large and old by the time burn­down her­bi­cides could be applied due to wet con­di­tions. Fields with a several-year his­tory of glyphosate response prob­lems also qual­ify. For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Mark Loux, 614–292-9081.

Rob Leeds is the OSU Exten­sion Edu­ca­tor for Delaware County.

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