Agricultural meetings to attend

This weather is really get­ting old. I hope when you are read­ing this the sun will be shin­ing and things will be start­ing to dry out. It seems that the “wet and soggy” theme has con­tin­ued well into our win­ter months. To help get through these long grey win­ter days, here are a few meet­ings you may want to take in:

Delaware County pes­ti­cide re-certification meeting

I would like to remind those of you whose pes­ti­cide license expires this year on March 31 that you will need to recer­tify soon. Our Delaware County Pes­ti­cide Recer­ti­fi­ca­tion meet­ing will be held on from 6 to 10 p.m. Feb. 8th here at the Exten­sion Office in Room B, 149 N. San­dusky St. Space is lim­ited, so we need you to call into the office to make a reser­va­tion soon in order for you to have a spot. The cost is $25. Our office num­ber is 740–833-2030.

Remem­ber that ODA has sim­pli­fied by reduc­ing the num­ber of licens­ing cat­e­gories from 13 to only 7. This con­sol­i­da­tion reflects the chang­ing needs of Ohio farm­ing oper­a­tions. Sev­eral smaller-use cat­e­gories have been com­bined for appli­ca­tors. For exam­ple, grow­ers who pro­duce a vari­ety of food crops will now only need one cat­e­gory for fruit and veg­etable crops. Some appli­ca­tors will have fewer cat­e­gories on their license, but will still be able to pur­chase and use the same pes­ti­cide prod­ucts. The spe­cialty cat­e­gories of seed treat­ment, non-cropland, aquat­ics, tobacco and wood preser­va­tion were con­sol­i­dated into the first six cat­e­gories. This means an appli­ca­tor would be able to pur­chase mate­ri­als for these appli­ca­tions with at least one cat­e­gory on their license.

North­ern Ohio Crops Day will be held on Feb. 9 at Ole Zim’s Wagon Shed, 1375 N. Ohio 590, Gib­son­burg, Ohio. Fea­tured on this pro­gram will be: “Phos­pho­rous and Lake Erie, What has Changed since 1995,” “Pes­ti­cide Appli­ca­tion, Mak­ing Sure You Hit the Tar­get”, “Prob­lem Weeds in Row Crops & For­ages,” “Using All the Tools for Grow­ing Corn” and “Pre­ci­sion Agri­cul­ture.” For more infor­ma­tion call 419–334-6340.

Ohio weed resis­tance workshops

The Ohio AgriBusi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion (OABA) and the Ohio Soy­bean Asso­ci­a­tion (OSA) have joined forces to offer this one-of-a-kind event series. There will be three work­shops across the state on Feb. 28, Feb. 29 and March 1, and is being offered at no cost to reg­is­tered participants.

The Ohio Soy­bean Asso­ci­a­tion, along with many spon­sors and the OABA, will put on these work­shops. This will be a unique oppor­tu­nity for both farm­ers and cus­tom appli­ca­tors deal­ing with her­bi­cide resis­tance to get up to speed on the cur­rent state of weed resis­tance man­age­ment in Ohio and get insight into future pro­jec­tions, as well as learn about how best to man­age it and how to uti­lize lat­est technologies.

Pre­sen­ters will include researchers Dr. Mark Loux and Tony Dobbels of The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity Depart­ment of Hor­ti­cul­ture and Crop Sci­ence. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Mon­santo and other experts in weed resis­tance round out the pro­gram. In addi­tion to indi­vid­ual speaker pre­sen­ta­tions, the events will fea­ture a panel dis­cus­sion with Q&A. CCA cred­its for the ses­sions will be available.

All three work­shops will begin at 9 a.m. and end at 12:30 p.m. and will be fol­lowed by a lunch. The dates and loca­tions are as follows:

• North­east Ohio — Feb. 28, at the Ohio Ag. Research & Devel­op­ment Cen­ter: 1680 Madi­son Ave., Wooster, OH 44691
• Cen­tral and South­ern Ohio — Feb. 29, held at the Faw­cett Cen­ter: 2400 Olen­tangy River Rd., Colum­bus, 43210
• West­ern and North­west Ohio — March 1, held at the Cen­tre: 601 North Main St., Bluffton, OH 45817

If you are inter­ested in one of these dates, RSVP at oaba.net.

The event is also spon­sored by The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity Agro­nomic Crops Team.

Mid­west Pro­fes­sional Nutri­ent Appli­ca­tors Asso­ci­a­tion is offer­ing this win­ter meet­ing. Some of the top­ics that will be addressed include: Fore­cast­ing the future of agri­cul­ture nutri­ents, How to fix mis­takes in record keep­ing and field appli­ca­tion, Indi­ana reg­u­la­tions update, and Appli­ca­tion of ethanol by-products and digester efflu­ent. Six Cer­ti­fied Live­stock Man­ager Cred­its will be offered for the entire day and Indi­ana PARP and CCH cred­its have been sub­mit­ted for approval. For reg­is­tra­tion infor­ma­tion, visit oema.osu.edu/MPNAA/feb2012/ Flyer.pdf.

Rob Leeds is the OSU Exten­sion Edu­ca­tor for Delaware County.

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