Educational series to focus on sheep, goat care

By DAVE DUGAN

dugan.46@osu.edu

In the same for­mat as the Beef School that I am host­ing at North Adams High School, there will be a Sheep and Goat WebEx Series start­ing on Mon­day, Feb. 4. The clos­est loca­tion is the Clin­ton County Exten­sion office in Wilm­ing­ton. The dates are the four Mon­days in Feb­ru­ary and the pro­gram will begin at 7 p.m. each night. If you would like to attend there is no charge, but you do need to con­tact Tony Nye atnye.1@osu.edu or call (937) 382‑0901 so hand­outs can be made ahead of time.

The top­ics and speak­ers are: Feb. 4 — Dr. Eric Gor­don, OSU Large Ani­mal Vet­eri­nar­ian, “Vac­ci­na­tion Pro­grams for Sheep and Goat Oper­a­tions”; Feb. 11 — Dr. Meghan Wulster-Radcliffe, CEO, Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Ani­mal Sci­ences, “Arti­fi­cial Insem­i­na­tion Tech­niques of Sheep and Goats”; Feb.18 — Jeff McCutcheon and Rory Lewandowski, OSU Exten­sion, “Man­ag­ing Pas­tures and Hay Fields after a Drought”; Feb. 25 — Dr. Keith Inskeep, West Vir­ginia Uni­ver­sity, “Use of EAZI-BREED CIDR for Sheep and Goat Operations.”

The Sheep and Goat WebEx Series is a four-part edu­ca­tional series; an indi­vid­ual can go to all or part of the pro­grams. Fol­low www.ohiosheep.org or http://sheep.osu.edu/ for pro­gram changes or addi­tional remote sites.

Pork Qual­ity Assur­ance and Ani­mal Composting

Mark your cal­en­dars for two pro­grams that will be com­ing up in mid-March. The date is March 14 for sev­eral things, some of which I will explain in the next sec­tion. In the evening on March 14, will be a Pork Qual­ity Assur­ance for adults at the United Pro­duc­ers Stock­yards in Hills­boro begins at 7 p.m.

Prior to the PQA there will be an oppor­tu­nity to attend train­ing for Ani­mal Com­post­ing. This pro­gram is lim­ited in space, so reg­is­ter early. Tony Nye, Clin­ton County Edu­ca­tor will be con­duct­ing both of these pro­grams, so for more infor­ma­tion or you can reg­is­ter by call­ing Tony at (937) 382‑0901.

Train­ing for Writ­ing Busi­ness Plans

There will be four local oppor­tu­ni­ties for peo­ple to receive train­ing to write bet­ter busi­ness plans for apply­ing for South­ern Ohio Agri­cul­tural and Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment Foun­da­tion funds in 2013. For more infor­ma­tion about pre­vi­ous pro­grams you can log onto http://soacdf.net or call the office at (937) 393‑2700.

The dates, times and loca­tions for the train­ing work­shops are:

Thurs­day, March 14, 1 p.m.-Washington Twp Town­ship Build­ing, 2238 SR 756, Moscow

Thurs­day, March 14, 6:30 p.m.- Brown County OSU Exten­sion Office, Fair­grounds, Georgetown

Mon­day, March 25, 1– p.m. South­ern State Com­mu­nity Col­lege, Gate­way Cen­ter, US 62, Fincastle

Tues­day, March 26, 6:30 p.m.- OSU Exten­sion, Cour­t­house Annex, N. Cross St., West Union

Organic Pro­grams

I get calls from time to time from peo­ple inter­ested in grow­ing organic crops. There are two upcom­ing edu­ca­tional pro­grams that might be right on tar­get if you want to know more about organic farm­ing. The first one is in Ohio and the sec­ond is in Ken­tucky. Keep in mind that the rules may dif­fer from state to state, but the pro­duc­tion ideas would be the same.

The Ohio Con­fer­ence is put on by the Ohio Eco­log­i­cal Food and Farm Asso­ci­a­tion in Granville on Feb 16 and 17. Reg­is­tra­tion infor­ma­tion and com­plete con­fer­ence details can be found athttp://oeffa .org or you can call (614) 421‑2022. Reg­is­tra­tion for both days is $205 for non-member adults, and one day is $120. Mem­ber­ships are cheaper than the dif­fer­ence in fees, so if you plan to attend, look at the mem­ber­ship fees for indi­vid­u­als and families.

The pro­gram in Ken­tucky will be at Berea Col­lege on March 1 and 2. The con­fer­ence infor­ma­tion can be found at http://oak-ky.org or you can call (502) 535‑6787 with ques­tions. Reg­is­tra­tion is $25 for adult non-members if paid by Feb. 17.

(David Dugan is an OSU Exten­sion Edu­ca­tor, ANR, Ohio Val­ley EERA.)

Dates to Remember

Beef School: Two remain­ing nights are Feb. 26 and March 19 in the Round Room at North Adams High School start­ing at 7 p.m. each night. Please call your county Exten­sion Office to reg­is­ter for this free event.

Pri­vate Appli­ca­tor Re-cert: Pes­ti­cide re-certification will be offered at South­ern State Com­mu­nity College’s South Cam­pus in Fin­cas­tle on Mon­day, Feb. 4 at 5:30 p.m., on Wednes­day Feb. 13 at noon, and again on Mon­day, Feb. 25, at noon. All three pro­grams will offer a light meal and mate­ri­als. The class will cost $35. Pre-registration is required. Space is absolutely lim­ited this year. Con­tact Cindy at the Brown County Exten­sion Office at (937) 378‑6716. These classes will fill-up and be closed when full. As of Jan. 29, the Feb. 4 date is now full.

Pes­ti­cide License Test­ing: Pri­vate and com­mer­cial test­ing for appli­ca­tor license will be offered on Feb. 11, March 11 and Apr. 8 at the Old Y Restau­rant. You are required to pre-register by call­ing the Ohio Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture at (800) 282‑1955 or online athttp://pested.osu.edu. Space is lim­ited so reg­is­ter soon. Study mate­ri­als are also avail­able at the same address or phone number.

Ohio River Val­ley Agron­omy Day: Mason County Exten­sion Office in Maysville, Ky., on Feb. 6 at 9 a.m. Call to reg­is­ter at (606) 564‑6808.

Annual Tobacco Grower Meet­ing: North Adams High School in Sea­man on Wednes­day, Feb. 6, in the evening. RSVP by Feb. 4 for this free pro­gram by call­ing the Exten­sion office, Adams County at 544‑2339, Brown County at 378‑6716, or High­land County at 393‑1918.

Mas­ter Gar­dener Class: Class begins to train vol­un­teers on Feb. 20 at the Brown County Exten­sion Office. Con­tact the Adams County Exten­sion Office to reg­is­ter at 544‑2339 or my cell at (937) 515‑2314. The cost is $150 for the 13 week class that will be from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Small Farm Con­fer­ence Wilm­ing­ton Col­lege on March 8 and 9. Go to http://adams.osu.edu, http://brown.osu.edu or http://highland.osu.edu for the print­able flyer or call for details.

Farm and Fam­ily Night: Maysville Com­mu­nity and Tech­ni­cal Col­lege on Tues­day, March 12.

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