2015 - Waseca County Farmer Forum
Please Join us…It’s Free for Waseca Landowners!*
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Farmamerica
7367-360th Avenue, Waseca, MN
Registration needed by Wednesday March 4, 2015
* $10 to cover food costs for those outside of Waseca County
8:30 a.m.
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AGENDA
Enclosed FYI:
 Registration
 Sponsor info
 Speaker bios
Registration and Consultations with Resource Personnel – coffee, juice and rolls
Russell Guse, Waseca County Ditch Inspector ~ Ditch Redeterminations
Jonathan Graves, Waseca County GIS Coordinator ~ Views of land from Waseca County GIS Data
Lenny Hulburt, Waseca County Feedlot Officer and Ag Inspector
Justin Gode, Roundbank ~ Agricultural Best Management Practices (AgBMP) Loan Program
Dan Arndt ~ Waseca County Soil and Water Conservation Program
Christina Stueber, Le Sueur Watershed Coordinator
Kay Clark and Dustin Anderson, Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA)
9:00 a.m. Welcome, Opening Remarks:
~ Moderator: Gyles Randall, Soil Scientist and Professor, Retired, U of M Southern Research and
Outreach Center
9:15 a.m.
The Governor’s Buffer Initiative
~ Jason Garms, Agricultural Program Liaison (MN-DNR) and Minnesota Farmer
Details regarding plans by the DNR to develop and implement buffer requirements, and other plans to work
cooperatively to increase conservation in agricultural areas of the state.
10:00 a.m. Integrated Drainage & Wetland Landscape Systems – Challenges & Opportunities
~ Shawn Richmond, Iowa CREP Program Coordinator
Overview of a pilot program in Iowa that seeks to establish a market driven approach for integrating water quality
wetlands into drainage infrastructure to achieve both increased environmental and agronomic outcomes.
11:00 a.m. Iowa STRIPS-Science-based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairie Strips
~ Timothy Youngquist, Agricultural Specialist, Iowa State University
The Iowa STRIPS team’s innovative research project shows that strategically converting just 10 percent of a crop
field into perennial prairie can greatly reduce offsite sediment export and phosphorus and nitrogen loss.
12:00 p.m. Lunch – Lasagna, garlic bread, lettuce salad with assorted dressings, and cookies
12:30 p.m. Saturating Riparian Buffers In Tile Drained Landscapes for Nitrate Removal ~ Dr. Dan Jaynes, Soil Scientist, National Soil Tilth Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service - USDA
Using re-routed field tile in conjunction with saturated buffers to increase nitrate removal.
1:30 p.m.
Focus on Feedlots
~ Desiree Hohenstein, Environmental Specialist, MPCA - Feedlot East Unit
Feedlot recordkeeping and permitting requirements.
2:15 p.m.
Featured Business - Crystal Valley Cooperative
~ Jay Schlomann, Agronomy Salesman, Waldorf
A brief history of the company, a summary of the cooperative’s services and a discussion of some current issues
facing agriculture will be discussed.
2:45 p.m. Closing Comments
~ Michael Hintz, Waseca County Board Chairman and Mark Leiferman, Waseca County Planning & Zoning
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Registration Deadline ~ Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Mail form to: Waseca County Planning & Zoning, 300 N State St, Waseca, MN 56093
Or register by phone: Call Shelley Hyatt at 507-835-0653 (voice mail 24/7)
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Program Sponsors
Waseca County
Planning and Zoning
Department
Janesville State Bank
“Helping Build a better Janesville
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Minnesota
Pollution Control
Agency
Waseca Co
ounty Farmer Forum – March 11, 2015 Speaker Biographiess The Governor’s
G
Bu
uffer Initiativ
ve
~ Jaso
on Garms, Agricultural Program
P
Liais
son (MN-DNR
R) and Minne
esota Farme
er
The Minnesota
M
Dep
partment of Natural
N
Resou
urces announ
nced that Jaso
on Garms is the agency’s
new agricultural
a
prrogram liaiso
on. The posittion was crea
ated to help the departm
ment address
priority
y natural res
source issue
es in Minne
esota’s agricu
ultural landsscape. It refflects DNR’s
recogn
nition that technological advances
a
in precision ag
griculture — that have brrought about
signific
cant increase
es in crop productivity — bring abou
ut similar nee
eds for adva
ancements in
precisiion conservattion. Garms is a prairie b iologist and a corn and so
oybean farme
er. In his new
role he
e will manage
e DNR agricu
ultural policy developmentt and program
m alignment. He will work
with agriculture
a
co
ommunity lea
aders and fa
armers to sttrengthen the
e agency’s conservation
partne
erships. Mos
st recently Garms worked
d for the DNR’s Ecologiccal and Wate
er Resources
Divisio
on as the statte prairie biologist. Prior to
o working witth the DNR, h
he held posittions with the
U.S. Fish
F
and Wildllife Service an
nd The Naturre Conservan
ncy. Garms w
will continue to
o “moonlight”
as a farmer, operrating his fou
urth generatio
on farm in ssouthwestern Minnesota. He holds a
bachelor’s degree in wildlife and fisheries scie
ences from South Dakota State Universsity.
Integrrated Drainag
ge & Wetland
d Landscape
e Systems – C
Challenges & Opportunities
~ Shaw
wn Richmon
nd, Iowa CRE
EP Program C
Coordinator
Shawn
n Richmond is a conserva
ation program
m manager wiith the Iowa D
Department o
of Agriculture
and La
and Stewards
ship (IDALS) where he ha
as worked sin
nce 2002. He has a Maste
er’s degree in
Water Resources frrom Iowa Sta
ate Universityy, where he fo
ocused on we
etlands resea
arch and GIS
ologies. His work include
es managing
g the Iowa Conservation
n Reserve E
Enhancement
techno
Progra
am, as well as
s work on the
e Iowa Nutrien
nt Reduction Strategy, Gulf of Mexico H
Hypoxia Task
Force, and Iowa Water
W
Resou
urces Coordin
nating Counccil. His workk with IDALS
S focuses on
ng with lando
owners to imp
plement bestt managemen
nt practices tto reduce nu
utrient losses
workin
while maintaining
m
agricultural pro
oductivity.
Iowa STRIPS-Scie
S
nce-based Trials
T
of Row
wcrops Integrrated with Prrairie Strips
~ Timo
othy Youngq
quist, Agricu
ultural Specia
alist, Iowa Sttate Universiity
Timoth
hy grew up on
o a century farm
f
in north
hwest Iowa, n
near Kiron, th
hat has been in his family
since 1871. He is in
ntensely prou
ud of that and
d wants to see
e the land sta
ay productive and healthy.
s led numero
ous work crew
ws, students, and voluntee
er groups in p
prairie restorattion activities
He has
throug
ghout Iowa, Minnesota
M
an
nd Wisconsin
n. He gaine
ed substantia
al experience
e in wildland
firefigh
hting as an Americorps
A
volunteer
v
in the San Berrnardino mou
untain range in Southern
Califorrnia. Recently
y, he has bee
en assisting h
his father with
h all aspects o
of their corn a
and soybean
operattion. As partt of their own
n conservatio
on efforts, the
ey have been
n overseeing a project to
create buffer strips using native prairie in field
ds and riparia
an zones on o
our land. His role with the
Agrono
omy Departm
ment at Iowa State is to help farmerss throughout the Midwestt design and
implem
ment in-field buffer strips using native perennial prrairie speciess. His profe
essional and
academic experien
nces have given him exxpertise in a wide varietyy of skills, including the
y equipment, chainsaws, a
and power to
ools; chemica
al application;; vehicle and
operattion of heavy
equipm
ment mainten
nance; and prroficiency in g
geographic in
nformation syystems, as we
ell as various
spread
dsheet and da
atabase progrrams. Above all, he is both
h knowledgea
able and passsionate about
produc
ction agricultu
ure and natura
al resource co
onservation.
Satura
ating Riparia
an Buffers In Tile Drained
d Landscape
es for Nitrate Removal ~ Dr. Dan
D Jaynes, Soil Scientis
st, National S
Soil Tilth Lab
boratory, Ag
gricultural Re
esearch
Servic
ce - USDA
Using re-routed field
d tile in conjunction with sa
aturated buffe
ers to increasse nitrate removal.
an Jaynes is
s a Researc
ch Soil Scien
ntist at the USDA-Agricu
ultural Resea
arch Service,
Dr. Da
Nation
nal Laboratorry for Agriculture and th e Environme
ent in Ames IA and a C
Collaborating
Profes
ssor in Agron
nomy at Iowa
a State Univversity. He h
has studied tthe fate and transport of
agrichemicals in the
e landscape for the past 3
30 years and authored 110 peer-review
wed scientific
ations. Curre
ent areas of re
esearch includ
de characterizing the impa
act of farming practices on
publica
nitrate losses to surrface waters, investigating the spatial and temporal p
patterns of yie
eld variations
n
and
soybe
nd
developing
g
new
design
ns
and
mana
agement
prac
ctices
for tile
in
corn
an
fields,
an
drainage to reduce nitrate losses
s to surface w
waters.
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15 Speaaker Biograph
hies Focus on Feedlots
~ Desiiree Hohenste
ein, Environm
mental Specia
alist, MPCA - Feedlot Eastt Unit
Desire
ee Hohenstein
n is an Enviro
onmental Spe cialist with the
e Minnesota Pollution Con
ntrol
Agenc
cy (MPCA) an
nd works withiin the East Fe
eedlot Unit. P
Prior to joining
g the MPCA, sshe
worked
d as the Assis
stant Zoning Administrator
A
r and County Feedlot Officcer for Brown
County
y for 7 years. She is experrienced in worrking with loccal feedlot own
ners and
operattors, agronom
mists, commerrcial animal w
waste techniciians in providing technical
experttise with regarrd to the requ
uirements of th
he Minnesota
a Feedlot Rule
e (Minn. R. 70
020).
Above
e all, she is kn
nowledgeable and passion ate when worrking with local stakeholde
er
groups
s regarding manure
m
applica
ation and watter quality.
Featurred Business
s - Crystal Valley Cooperattive
~ Jay Schlomann,
S
Agronomy
A
Sa
alesman
Jay will provide info
ormation abou
ut the Crystal Valley Coope
erative. The company is a local
full serrvice coopera
ative with ove
er 140 full-tim e employees serving the a
agronomy, en
nergy,
feed, and
a grain cus
stomers. The
e company wa
as founded in
n 1927 and h
has eight loca
ations
serving
g Blue Earth
h, Brown, LeSueur, Nicol let, Watonwa
an, and Wasseca countiess and
surrounding areas in
i south-centrral Minnesota
a. Crystal Valley strives to meet the nee
eds of
livesto
ock and crop farmers thro
ough the exp
pertise of ourr friendly, knowledgeable staff,
high-quality productts, and modern facilities an
nd equipmentt.
Waseca Cou
unty Farmer FForum – Marcch 11, 2015 About thee Moderator
Gyles W. Randall, PhD, Southe
ern Research
h & Outreach
h Center, Wa
aseca
– Stew
wardship Opportunities for
f So. Minne
esota
A nativ
ve to Wanam
mingo, Minnes
sota, Gyles grrew up on a g
general livesttock and crop
p farm
before
e receiving his
h B.S. and M.S. degree
es in Soil S
Science from the Universsity of
Minnesota and Ph.D. from the University
U
of Wisconsin. G
Gyles then joiined the Univversity
of Min
nnesota Sou
uthern Experriment Statio
on in 1972, retiring in 2
2010. Initiallyy, he
develo
oped a resea
arch program that determiined how nitrrogen, phosp
phorus, potasssium,
zinc, sulfur,
s
manurre, and lime could be ap
pplied to corrn and soybe
eans for imp
proved
economic productiion and nuttrient efficien
ncy. As envvironmental cconcerns be
ecame
prevalent, the environmental co
onsequences of N, P and
d manure were addressed
d. Tile
drainage facilities installed att Lamberton and Wasecca in the m
mid 70’s en
nabled
determ
mination of N, P, S, atrazin
ne, alachlor, a
and Salmonellla losses in ttile drainage w
water.
Tillage
e studies for corn and so
oybeans were
e also condu
ucted for ma
any site-yearss. His
researrch was cond
ducted primarrily at the Sou
uthern Experriment Station
n/Research C
Center
plus in
n 24 southern
n Minnesota counties.
c
The information g
gained has be
een the found
dation
of bes
st managem
ment practice
e (BMP) bullletins for N and tillage
e manageme
ent in
southe
eastern and south-central Minnesota
M
an
nd for numero
ous speaking invitations. H
He has
been active
a
in the research and
d education a
activities surro
ounding the lo
oss of nitrate
es into
the Mississippi Rive
er, feeding hy
ypoxia in the G
Gulf of Mexico
o. His talk tod
day is based o
on his
researrch and education record
d and on h
his involveme
ent in establlishing agricu
ultural
policie
es.
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