NATIONAL Sept. 7-9: The Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival will feature fiber arts classes, stock dog trial, a country store, Border collie demonstrations and “Sheep 101”, sheep & fleece shows at Jefferson Fair Park, Jefferson, Wis. For details, visit www.wisconsinsheepand woolfestival.com
ILLINOIS Aug. 27: The University of Illinois will host its first International Agronomy Day at the UoI South Farms near Urbana, Ill. with a discussion on global food production. For more information, go to iad.cropsci.illinois.edu
Aug. 30: Two land lease issue programs will be hosted by University of Illinois Extension from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Grundy County Extension office, 4004 N. Division, Morris, Ill., and in the evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Sycamore Historical Museum, 1730 N. Main Street, Sycamore, Ill. Cost to participate is $15 per person and includes light refreshments. Call or register on-line by contacting Grundy County at 815-942-2725 or go to http://web.exten sion.illinois.edu/gkw/ For U of I Extension, DeKalb County, call 815-758-8194 or go to http://web.extension.illinois.edu/bdo/
Sept. 10: The Illinois Organic Growers Assoc. and University of Illinois Extension are offering an urban agriculture tour, Farm to Table from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Goodness Greeness in Chicago, Ill., a company that directly supplies organic produce to over 300 stores, including the region’s largest supermarkets and independent retailers. Cost to register is $10 (by Aug. 31). Register at http://farmtotablegoodnessgreenessuncommonground.eventbrite.com
INDIANA Sept. 3: The Michiana Farm Toy Collector’s Club is sponsoring its 25th annual Labor Day Toy Show at the Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds in Goshen, Ind. For more information, contact Ken Miller at 574-537-9500.
Sept. 5: Landowners who want to diversify their acreage to preserve the family farm, earn extra income or conserve their land can attend a Purdue Extension Natural Resource Enterprises workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Indiana Farm Bureau Building, 225 S. East St., Indianapolis, Ind. Registration is $35 if completed by Aug. 30. Workshops include resource materials, lunch and refreshments. Contact Brian MacGowan, Purdue Extension wildlife specialist, at macgowan@pur due.edu Sept. 6: Landowners who want to diversify their acreage to preserve the family farm, earn extra income or conserve their land can attend a Purdue Extension Natural Resource Enterprises workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Blue River Valley Farm, 10351 E. Daugherty Lane, Milltown, Ind. Registration is $35 if completed by Aug. 30. Workshops include resource materials, lunch and refreshments. Contact Brian MacGowan, Purdue Extension wildlife specialist, at macgowan@purdue.edu
Sept. 6: A Purdue Extension workshop will focus largely on helping forage and livestock producers manage the 2012 drought from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Purdue Agronomy Center for Research and Education in West Lafayette, Ind. Registration is $110 per person. More information and registration materials are available at https://ag.purdue.edu/agry/dtc/Pages/September62012.aspx
OHIO Aug. 23: Livestock and forages will be the focus of Ohio State University’s Beef and Forage Field Night at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center’s Jackson Agricultural Research Station in Jackson, Ohio. Contact Kenny Wells at wells.296@osu.edu or 740-286-3803. Participants can also register online at www.oardc.osu.edu/branches/branchinfo.asp?id=11
Aug. 23-24: Efforts to reduce soluble nitrogen and soluble phosphorus from moving off farmland will be discussed by Ohio State University experts and others during a joint workshop and meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and the Assoc. of Ohio Pedologists in Centerburg, Ohio. Registration is $50 for one day and $100 for both days. To register, call 419-421-7255 or e-mail hoorman.1@osu.edu
Sept. 5: Pumpkin Field Day, to be held from 6-8 p.m. at Ohio State University’s Western Agricultural Research Station in South Charleston, Ohio. Cost is $5 per person. Both CCA (certified crop advisor) and PAT (pesticide applicator training) credits will be available. Contact jasinski.4@osu.edu, 937-484-1526 or 937-462-8016.
KENTUCKY Sept. 11-12: The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture will host the Kentucky Grazing School at the Woodford County extension office in Versailles, Ky. Sessions begin at 7:30 a.m. and end at 5:30 p.m. local time. Preregistration is necessary - limited to the first 45 registrants. Applications are available online at www2.ca.uky.edu/grazer
TENNESSEE Sept. 5: The annual Cotton Tour Field Day will return to the West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center in Jackson, Tenn. Registration for the Cotton Tour begins at 8 a.m. with lunch following and concluding by 4 p.m. Admission to the Cotton Tour is free and open to the public. A schedule is posted at http://west.tennessee.edu/events
Editor’s Note: Coming Events is a free listing. The material presented is a cross-section of activities about which we know. Placement in Coming Events is on a space available basis and is up to the discretion of the Farm World staff. |
