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2025 OSN Road Trip Day 3 – Huron County
August 25, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Join the OSN and Maitland Valley Conservation Authority for a regional community event featuring field tours and learning opportunities!
This event is an OSCIA-recognized Knowledge Sharing Event (KSE) for farmers with On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) projects in the Cover Cropping category.
And also approved for 1 CEU in Nitrogen Management and 1 CEU in Soil & Water Management
| Host | Time | Location | Description |
| Alan Willits (with Ben Van Dieten, Maitland Valley Conservation Authority) | 12pm – 2pm | 42489 Salem Rd Wingham ON N0G 2W0 | Join the OSN and Ben Van Dieten with Maitland Valley Conservation Authority for a tour of Alan Willits’s operation. Alan will share what he is working on focusing on planting black beans into green cereal rye with strip till, as well as his trial of using Calcium Nitrate to increase Brix of his black beans and soyabeans. Ben will share more information on local funding opportunities. |
| Harrison Burgsma (with Ben Van Dieten, Maitland Valley Conservation Authority) | 3pm – 5pm | 36144 Dungannon Rd. Dungannon ON N0M1R0 | Join the OSN and Ben Van Dieten with Maitland Valley Conservation for a tour of Harrison Burgsma’s operation. Harrison will share his work with no-till as well as the farms water management structures. Harrison Burgsma is a third generation farmer who runs a cash crop, hog and broiler operation near Dungannon. |
| Dinner | 5pm – 6pm | 36144 Dungannon Rd. Dungannon ON N0M1R0 |