NATIONAL Oct. 13-14: Historic Cedarburg, Wis. will be host to Oktoberfest in Cedar Creek Park bursting with gemuetlichkeit from 11 a.m. unti 8 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Sunday. For more details, visit www.cedarburgfesti val.org or call 888-894-4001.
ILLINOIS Oct. 12-13: Four Rocks Arena in Delavan, Ill., will host two action packed performances of professional bull riding and competition beginning at 7 p.m. nightly. Each performance will feature some of the top bull riders of the National Federation of Professional Bullriders (NFPB) pitted against award winning bucking bulls. For more information go to rawlings4arena.com
INDIANA Oct. 15-19: Agribusiness managers will have the knowledge and skills to guide and implement integrated marketing after attending the Strategic AgriMarketing seminar on Purdue’s campus in West Lafayette, Ind. More information is available at www.age con.purdue.edu/cab/programs/sam
OHIO Oct. 12: The Montgomery Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) office will host its annual meeting at the Montgomery SWCD office, located at 10025 Amity Road, Brookville, Ohio. For more information, visit www.Mont gomerySWCD.org
Oct. 13-14: Wayne County Farm Bureau Farm & Foliage Tour. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Oct. 13; 1 to 6 p.m., Oct. 14. Eight stops, including at the Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute Equine Center and ATI’s new cattle handling facility, 3339 South Apple Creek Road, Apple Creek. Ohio. Free. Information: http://ofbf.org/counties/wayne/blog/5681/
TENNESSEE Oct. 10: The Tennessee Poultry Assoc. will host a workshop on poultry production in Shelbyville, Tenn., featuring Dr. Mike Czarich, Univ. of GA, on the latest with tunnel ventilation and Dr. Jim Arends, NC State Univ., on darkling beetle and fly control. Admission & meal is free; sponsoring vendors welcome. Call the office at 931-225-1116 or info@tnpoultry.org
Oct. 11: The University of Tennessee will host the Northeast Tennessee Beef Expo in Greeneville, Tenn., at the UT AgResearch and Education Center. Registration and a trade show will begin at 7:30 a.m. Pre-register at a local UT Extension office or visit https://utextension.tennessee.edu/Pages/offices.aspx
Oct. 11: The Tennessee Poultry Assoc. will host a workshop on poultry production in Martin, Tenn., featuring Dr. Mike Czarich, Univ. of GA, on the latest with tunnel ventilation and Dr. Jim Arends, NC State Univ., on darkling beetle and fly control. Call the office at 931-225-1116 or info@tnpoultry.org
LOOKING AHEAD Oct. 24-25: The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, in cooperation with industrial collaborators, will present “From Grow to Go” a Biomass Field Day event in Vonore, Tenn., and will feature on-farm demonstrations of energy crop production as well as an open house at Genera Energy’s Biomass Innovation Industrial Park. To register, go online to http://bio
massfieldday.com and click on the registration link or contact Mark Alexander at malexan3@utk.edu or by calling 865-946-1162. Oct. 30: University of Kentucky and U.S. Department of Agriculture specialists will discuss the drought and other timely topics during the 13th Kentucky Grazing Conference at the UK Research and Education Center in Princeton. Ky. Registration is the day of the conference. The registration fee is $15 and $5 for students. Oct. 31: The University of Tennessee Extension will present a four-hour workshop designed to help producers who are considering value-added dairy opportunities at the UT Middle Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center in Spring Hill, Tenn. Visit http://cpa.utk.edu or contact Richard Groce by phone at 931-375-5301 or email rgroce@utk.edu
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. |
