This workshop will offer growers an advanced, marathon session on cover crops with the opportunity to work hands-on with soils and seeds, as well as learn about specific cover crops. Topics for the day include ECO farming — Ecological farming practices; soil ecology and nutrient recycling; using cover crops to adapt to extreme weather, biology of soil compaction; soil demonstrations; economics of cover crops; using the cover crop selector tool; growing nitrogen; using grasses and brassicas in your crop rotation; using cover crops in a crop rotation; and keeping phosphorus in the soil profile.

The workshop will be held at the Putnam County Extension office in Ottawa from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is $25 and includes lunch, handouts, fact sheets and a new Midwest Cover Crop Field Guide. To register, call 419-523-6294 or email hoorman.1@osu.edu.