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Crops Conference 2015 - Lancaster County

Online Registration Deadline: Wednesday, January 14, 2015

When

Thursday, January 15, 2015
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Where

Lancaster Farm & Home Center
1383 Arcadia Road
Lancaster, PA 17601

 

The 2015 Penn State Extension Crops Conferences are located in four counties around the state - Lancaster, Bradford, Union, and Lehigh. Each conference offers a day-long program with at least two concurrent breakout sessions, giving attendees the opportunity to select topics that are relevant to them and their agricultural operations.

In addition to hearing valuable cropping information from Penn State Field and Forage Crop Specialists, participants will also earn a minimum of 2 Category and 2 Core pesticide education credits.

Statewide Topics

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  • Grain Crop Management: 204 and Beyond
  • Is Battling Pigweed and Other Resistant Weeds Your Future?
  • Insect Issues from 2014, Including Bt Rootworm
  • Crop Budgeting: Tools to Calculate Your Production Costs
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Dry Farming, Deer Fencing, and Cover Crops in the Paths with Eric Nordell

Video: Dry Farming, Deer Fencing, and Cover Crops in the Paths with Eric Nordell

We cover: today I am so excited to share this conversation with my buddy Eric Nordell of Beech Grove Farm in Pennsylvania to chat about, well, a lot of things. Eric and his wife Anne have run beech grove farm since 1983 and they do things a little differently (like farming with horses) but they dry farm which we discuss, they use some cover crops in the paths in interesting ways (also discussed) and in fact, we get into a whole digression about their deer fencing that you’re gonna wanna hear.