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Ohio Compost Operator Education Course

 

Checking out soil health at the 2018 MSR.

 

 

 

OHIO COMPOST OPERATOR EDUCATION COURSE
April 11-12, 2024 | CFAES Wooster Campus

Learn the fundaments of composting as well as how to manage a large-scale operation and utilize finished compost. 

Click here for program and registration details.


Save the date: MANURE SCIENCE REVIEW 
August 6, 2024 | London, Ohio

Demonstrations of the RAIN 360 Unit for applying liquid manure and best practices for spill cleanup, plus presentations on manure placement and subsurface drainage, manure application practices, and more.

Stay tuned for details and to sign up. 


MANURE SCIENCE REVIEW
August 2021

Mercer County, Ohio

The field day is done, but check out this great video (click here). Glen Arnold, OSU, shows the amounts of different manures needed to get 1 lb of P2O5.

 
Bins for composting poultry mortality.

ONLINE: Ohio Mortality Composting Certification Workshop.

Composting dead animals is an environmentally friendly and cost effective disposal method, but Ohio livestock producers must attend a course for certification or complete the online training. Here’s how to sign up for the online course:
1)      Go to: https://campus.extension.org/enrol/index.php?id=608

NOTE: The cost is $17 and can be paid with a credit card or PayPal account. The course consists of 8 presentations and takes about 3 hours, plus a 25 question exam. It can be completed in 1 sitting or spread out over several days.