Feb 7, 2017 - 1:00 PM. Welcome & Opening Remarks (Crystal Ballroom). Gord Green, OSCIA President. 1:10 PM. President
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)