Farmers & Darke and Mercer County Farm Bureaus · 2017-02-21 · Session One: Bee Keeping 101 Do you want to know more about bee keeping? Learn about the importance of bees to the

Emerging

Agricultural

Conference

Saturday, March 11, 2017

Wright State University Lake Campus– Dicke Hall

Wright State Collegiate Young Farmers & Darke and Mercer County Farm Bureaus

8:00am – 1:30pm

Name:

Address:

City/State/Zip:

County:

Phone:

Email:

Cost:

$5.00 Member

$10.00 Non Member

Please mail your registrations

and payment to:

Darke County Farm Bureau

1554 McKaig Ave. Bldg. B,

Troy, OH 45373

Or Call 855-335-1471 with

your registration and/or credit

card payment

The Ohio Farm Bureau

recently just announced

Adam Sharp as the new

Executive Vice President.

Sharp’s role is to lead

efforts to advance its

mission to forge

partnership between

farmers and consumers.

AGRICULTURE PROGRAM Wright State University LAKE CAMPUS

8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration

8:30-9:15 Welcoming

Keynote: Adam Sharp

OFBF Executive Vice President

9:15-10:15 Session 1

10:20-11:20 Session 2

11:20-12:30 Session 3

12:30-1:30 Lunch

Session One: Bee Keeping 101

Do you want to know more about

bee keeping? Learn about the

importance of bees to the

environment and how to

successfully keep your own hive.

This session is for you.

Session Two:

Wine Making

Learn from local experts at the

Versailles Winery about the

process of wine making and how to

make it at home.

Session Three: Developing

your own Marketing Plan

High yields are important but

knowledge in marketing those

crops can be even more important.

Learn from grain originators on

how to develop your own grain

marketing plan.

Session One: Precision

Agriculture

Ever wonder how precision

agriculture can benefit farmers?

Learn from one of the leading

companies in precision agriculture

about making field prescriptions to

ultimately better yields.

Session Two: Manure

Applications

OSU Extension has five years of on

farm research conducted in Western

Ohio about sidedressing manure.

Learn about innovative techniques to

apply manure to cut input costs.

Session Three:

AI Demonstrations

Coba Select Sires along with Buschur

Dairy Farms will demonstrate the

proper way to artificial inseminate

and provide tips to be successful in

the AI process.