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Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association

2017 Annual Conference Tuesday, February 7 10:00 AM

“Seek, Test, Adopt”

Registration Opens (Atrium) Pre-Conference session - “How to hold a Successful Meeting” (South Crystal Ballroom)

Afternoon

Presentation Topic

Helen Scutt, OMAFRA & Brittany Roka, OSCIA

Speaker

12:00 PM

Election Lunch - Oak Room

1:00 PM

Welcome & Opening Remarks (Crystal Ballroom)

Gord Green, OSCIA President

1:10 PM

President’s Report Executive Director’s Report Approval of 2016 OSCIA Annual Meeting Minutes Presentation & Approval of 2016 Audited Financial Statement Introduction to the 2017 Honorary President Ratification of the Board of Directors Presenting the Slate of the Executive Committee

Gord Green, OSCIA President Andrew Graham, Executive Director

2:05 PM

Research Committee Reports

Mack Emiry, 1st Vice President

2:15 PM

Panel Discussion - “What leads you to make farming Decisions?”

Peter Johnson & Pat Lynch

2:00 PM

3:15 PM

Gord Barr, CA, RLP LLP, Guelph Mack Emiry, 1st Vice President Les Nichols, 3rd Vice President

Break (Atrium)

3:30 PM

Introductions to Resolutions

Peter McLaren, 2nd Vice President Jaclyn Clark, UofG

4:45 PM

Ontario’s 1st Soil Health Graduate Scholarship Presentation “Research in Progress: Opportunities for Inter-seeding Cover Crops into Corn Preceding Soybean” Presentation of 2016-17 scholarship winner

5:05 PM

“Cow-Calf vs. Cash Crop - Who Wins?”

5:30 PM

Dinner Break (Atrium)

Chad Anderson

Evening “Forages for Profit and Soil Health”

Ian McDonald

7:15 PM

“Forage Insurance Results”

Ellen Blenkiron, Agricorp

7:35 PM

“Milk Plus Wine = Diversification”

Denis Perrault

8:00 PM

Remaining Resolutions (if needed)

Peter McLaren, 2nd Vice President

8:30 pm

Adjourn for the Day - Mix & Mingle (Atrium)

6:30 PM

Wednesday, February 8 Morning

Presentation Topic

NEW

Speaker

Bring a Friend Day - for Wednesday morning or afternoon program and get a free lunch

6:45 AM

Breakfast (Atrium)

8:00 AM

Morning Program & Opening Remarks

Les Nichols, 3rd Vice President

8:10 AM

Tier Two: St. Clair - “Advancing Cover Crop Systems in Ontario Soil Nutrients (N&P), Soil Health, Insects and Nematodes”

Adam Hayes

8:30 AM

Tier One: Halton - “Assessing Innovative Soil Sampling”

Adrian Mohammed & Kay McLagen

8:40 AM

Tier Two: Ottawa-Carleton - “Environmentally Sustainable Utilization of N on Corn”

Sean Cochrane

9:00 AM

Tier One: Durham/Victoria - “Summer Bus Tour”

Paul Hagey

9:10 AM

Keynote Presentation: “The Living Soil”

Mike Dorion

10:00 AM

Break (Atrium)

10:30 AM

Tier One: Norfolk - “Systems Approach to Cover Crops in Rotation”

Dan Petker

10:40 AM

Tier Two: Cochrane-Temiskaming - “Rapid Development of Farmland from Boreal Forest and an Evaluation Relative to Traditional Clearing Methods”

Stephanie Vanthof

11:00 AM

Tier One: Eastern Valley - “Bringing Your Soil to Life”

Warren Schneckenburger

11:10 AM

Tier Two: Thames Valley - “Roots Not Iron”

Mike Miller

11:30 AM

Tier One: Middlesex, Elgin & Thames Valley - “Nitrogen Management in Extremely Advanced Wheat”

TBD

11:40 AM

Tier One: Renfrew - “Soil Health Benchmarking”

Kelly Armstrong

12:00 PM

Lunch (Crystal Ballroom)

Afternoon OSCIA Program Updates Environmental Programs - Interim Environmental Programs Manager Growing Forward 2 - Program Manager Research & Business Development - Executive Officer

………….. Andréa Dubé-Goss John Laidlaw Harold Rudy

2:15 PM

2016 Soil Champion Presentation & Announcing the 2017 Winner

Tyler Vollmershausen

2:45 PM

Break (Atrium)

3:00 PM

Launch of NEW Ontario Forage Master Competition

Don Oliver

3:20 PM

Introduction to the Association Development Advisors’ Objectives

Brittany Roka

3:45 PM

iClicker Session - Feedback from Delegates

Alan Kruszel & Brittany Roka

4:00 PM

“Engaging the public at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show”

Karen Jacobs

4:30 PM

Adjourn (RCC, Board, and Soil Champion Pictures)

Cambridge Room

1:00 PM

Evening

Reception (Atrium)

5:00 PM

Reception in the Atrium - Banquet doors open at 6:15 PM

6:30 PM

Banquet Dinner (short break at 8:15 p.m.)

Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:30 PM

Banquet Entertainment

John Park, Comedy Entertainer

9:20 PM

Introduction of New OSCIA President for 2017

Gord Green & Mack Emiry

9:30 PM

Annual Conference Adjourns - Mix & Mingle (Atrium)