Software for Developing Nutrient Management Plans Workshop

For Certified Crop Advisers who would like to become a NRCS Certified Nutrient Management Plan Provider Planner or NRCS/SWCD personnel.

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When Mar 22, 2012
from 09:00 AM to 04:00 PM
Where OSU Extension Office-Fulton County, 8770 State Route 108, Wauseon, Ohio 43567
Contact Name
Contact Phone 419-460-0600
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Two winter 2012 dates are being offered:

March 20th, 9:00 am -4:00 pm

Marion County Extension Office-Meeting Room

(Lower Level of Marion County Administration Building)

222 West Center Street, Marion, Ohio 43302

Registration: http://www.regonline.com/NMPWorkshop3-20

Deadline:3/16/2012

 

March 22nd, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

OSU Extension Office-Fulton County

8770 State Route 108, Wauseon, Ohio 43567

Registration: http://www.regonline.com/NMPWorkshop3-22

Deadline:3/16/2012

 

Cost $75. Limited to 12 participants. Lunch will be ordered in.

Session Resourced by:

Greg LaBarge, Field Specialist, Agronomic Systems, Ohio State University Extension

Mark Scarpitti, Ohio NRCS State Agronomist

 

What the Day is about? Program will demonstrate MapWindow GIS & MMP Tools, MMP software and Ohio Nutrient Management Templates as approved tools for development of Fertilizer Only or Precision Fertilizer Only Nutrient Management Plans for NRCS programs such as EQUIP. The training will use a sample farm to demonstrate the utilization of these two programs to generate a plan that can be presented to NRCS for approval.

  • MapWindow GIS is an open source GIS product that is used to develop nutrient management plans by defining fields and farms then downloading spatial data such as soil types which provide base information needed for MMP is Nutrient Plan development. Data generated is exported to MMP through the MMP tools which have been added. The version used for the workshop is dated 10/11/2010 and is available through http://www.agry.purdue.edu/mmp/
  • The current templates for Ohio plans that work with MMP have been developed by NRCS State Agronomist Mark Scarpitti can be found at http://efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/treemenuFS.aspx. The templates will be provided on the workshop disk given out during the workshop.

Please plan to bring a laptop along with you with the programs installed. A session is offered at the start of the day before the program begins if you need assistance with this.

 

Agenda:

 

8:30 Help provided installing MapWindow GIS and MMP.

9:15 Introduction

9:30 Using Map Window GIS and MMP Tools

            The farm visit checklist

            Getting Started with MMP

·       Missouri Clipper defining, downloading and importing

·       Field Boundaries through MapWindow and Importing shape files 

·       Adding water features

·       Identifying other resource concerns

·       Exporting  to MMP

11:30 Introduction to MMP

12:00 Lunch

12:50 Starting with MMP

·       Fields Tab

·       Assessment Tab

·       Soil Test Tab

·       Crops Tab with RUSLE2

·       Nutrient Management Tab

3:30 Demonstration of Ohio NRCS Templates for Nutrient Management Plans

4:00 Adjourn

           

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