Conference to address how to reduce off-site movement of nutrients

Early registration due by this Friday

The All Ohio Chapter of the Soil & Water Conservation Society will be holding a conference that addresses technologies and techniques for reducing off-site movement of nutrients and the barriers of their adoption and implementation.

The conference will be held March 17 from 8:30 am to 4:40 pm at the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Bromfield Auditorium located at 8995 E. Main St., Reynoldsburg. The cost of the event, which includes lunch and refreshments, is $40 for Soil & Water Conservation Society members and $50 for non-members. Student members of the society can register for $20. There is a $10 late fee for those registering after this Friday.

The conference has been pre-approved for Certified Crop Advisor Continuing Education Units in the following categories: five hours of soil & water management and one hour of nutrient management.

Speakers for the conference include: Kevin Elder, chief of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Division of Livestock Environmental Permitting; Dr. Larry Brown, professor, Ohio State University's Department of Food, Agricultural & Biological Engineering; Glen Arnold, nutrient management field specialist, Ohio State University Extension; Dr. Douglas R. Smith, research soil scientist, National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, West Lafayette, Ind.; Jim Hoorman, Extension educator in Putnam County; Dr. Warren Dick, professor, Environment & Natural Resources, Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center; Bret Margraf, nutrient management technician, Seneca Soil & Water Conservation District, and Dr. Linda Stalker Prokopy, associate professor of Natural Resources Social Science, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University.

To see the agenda and registration materials, click here (http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/ocamm/images/2014_AOC-SWCS_WInter_Mtg.pdf)