Ohio Farm Bureau hosts statewide CAUV update webinar
The Statewide CAUV Update Webinar explained more about the recent changes in CAUV and what could be next for the program. Watch the recording.
Read MoreIn this edition of Field Day, Ohio Farm Bureau’s Director of Water Quality and Research Jordan Hoewischer talks with John Fulton, associate professor at Ohio State University. Fulton’s research areas include precision agriculture and machinery automation technology.
“One thing that excites me, we have a pretty strong young generation coming up in Ohio who are actively involved in the farm,” Fulton said. “Some of this technology has proven to improve our ability to manage nutrients. I’m excited that we have a young farming community that is in tune with that.”
This is the third installment of Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer, an ongoing series of conversations with industry experts and leaders who are helping to shape and secure the future of Ohio’s ag industry for generations to come.
Following are some highlights from Episode 3. Listen to the entire episode here.
Q: What can you tell us about your work on environmental progress reporting and conservation practice reporting?
A: We’re trying to come up with a framework where we can annually report voluntary practices that growers are implementing at the farm level and quantify that in a report. We’re very interested in doing that on a global level to report on how many growers are adopting practices that help reduce environmental risks but have proven to be profitable – buffer filters, grassways, etc., to showcase the good things Ohio farmers are doing to policymakers and the public in general.
Q: What are some of the (precision ag) apps that you are working on, including PLOTS?
A: PLOTS was created to help growers replicate scientific, on-farm research. (Users can create on-farm trials that compare hybrids, fertilizer rates, stand counts and more.) The second app to be released in the near future is FERT. It’s for growers who may be part of a Nutrient Management Plan or are evaluating a nutrient management recommendation to help them evaluate the program. It also has links to information about nutrient management in general. We want to put the information that farmers need about nutrient management at their fingertips.
Q: You are doing research on several different fertilizer types and applications throughout the state. One of those applications is subsurface nutrient placement. What is that and why is it important?
A: We’ve got a few different types of strip-till – ways to open the soil and inject or blow that fertilizer down. We have a few different ways to know how to set those implements up to distribute the nutrients effectively. As we look forward, we know that precise nutrient placement is going to be more of an opportunity in the future. We want to know how to execute that accurately and how it responds agronomically and environmentally and see what kind of response we are getting.
Q: What’s the most important thing farmers can do to step their game up conservation wise or efficiency wise?
A: Have a sound nutrient management plan, especially phosphorus and nitrogen. Moving into the future we have to adapt. Every growing season is new and unique and we have to be to show how we adapt to those scenarios.
The Statewide CAUV Update Webinar explained more about the recent changes in CAUV and what could be next for the program. Watch the recording.
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