Important upcoming meetings to attend

We are almost into March and it seems that win­ter has passed us by. Ground mois­ture is high, and thank­fully, we have really missed out on the ice and snow so far this year. I hope we will slide right into spring with­out it.

There are a few upcom­ing meet­ings that I would like to make you aware of. On Fri­day, March 2, at Dawes Arbore­tum, there will be an all-day fruit and veg­etable grow­ers work­shop. Speak­ers on fruit will include Brad Berge­furd, exten­sion hor­ti­cul­tur­ist (small fruit update), Celeste Welty, OSU ento­mol­o­gist (fruit insect man­age­ment update); Mike Ellis, OSU Exten­sion plant pathol­o­gist (tree and small fruit dis­ease update); Gary Gao, small fruit spe­cial­ist (com­mer­cial blue­berry update).

Speak­ing on veg­eta­bles will be Hal Kneen, OSU Exten­sion Meigs/Athens Co. (brand­ing your prod­uct); Brad Berge­furd, OSU Exten­sion hor­ti­cul­tur­ist (veg­etable update); Celeste Welty, (veg­etable insect man­age­ment update); and Hal Kneen on pest scout­ing in sweet corn. I will be speak­ing on con­nect­ing with your cus­tomers at the begin­ning of these sessions.

The cost for the day, which includes lunch and hand­outs, is $15. If inter­ested, please call the exten­sion office at 740–833-2030 to sign up.

New tech­nol­ogy has sparked inter­est in new leas­ing arrange­ments. Due to this increased inter­est, OSU Exten­sion, along with Ohio Farm Bureau Fed­er­a­tion and the Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion, will be spon­sor­ing an infor­ma­tive Brief­ing on Oil and Gas Leas­ing. The event will be at 7 p.m. Wednes­day, March 7, at All Occa­sions Cater­ing in Waldo. There is no charge and this brief­ing will try to address the ques­tions and con­cerns that many peo­ple in the area have on the topic. To reg­is­ter, please call the Delaware County Farm Bureau office at 740–363-1613.

Key speak­ers will include Chris Pen­rose who will speak on the process and impli­ca­tions of hor­i­zon­tal drilling. He will dis­cuss the pros and cons, show pic­tures of sites, and the impacts from local to global. Dale Arnold, direc­tor for energy ser­vices for the Ohio Farm Bureau Fed­er­a­tion, will speak on land uni­ti­za­tion require­ments, repair/remediation prac­tices, gen­eral pay­ments, roy­alty and bonus pro­vi­sions and leas­ing arrangements.

Rob Leeds is the OSU Exten­sion Edu­ca­tor for Delaware County Ag/NR.

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