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2025 OSN Road Trip Day 6 – Chatham-Kent + Ridgetown
August 28, 2025 @ 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Join the OSN for a regional community event featuring field tours and a get together to reconnect, share and learn!
| Host | Time | Location | Description |
| Mark Richards | 8:30am – 10:30am | 29488 Robinson Rd, Chatham-Kent, ON | Join Mark Richards, a field cropper farming near Dresden Ontario to discuss his use of strip-till, his systems approach to his operation and how Mark is implementing robotics/autonomy solutions to improve soil health. |
| Dr. Laura Van Eerd – Long-Term Research Plots | 11am – 12pm | 911# 20701 Victoria Rd (former Hwy 21) N of Gosnell Line | Tour Dr. Laura Van Eerd’s long-term research plots related looking at the use of BMPs as it related to soil health. For years, Van Eerd’s team has been quantifying changes in soil health over time using indicators such as soil organic carbon and total nitrogen storage level, which can vary in quantity due to tillage system, crop rotation, cover crop use and N application. Dr. Van Eerd is currently looking at how crop yields relate to soil health. |
| Lunch | 12pm – 1pm | 120 Main ST. E. Ridgetown, ON N0P 2C0 | |
| Farmer – Researcher Field Tours at University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus | 1pm – 5pm | 120 Main ST. E. Ridgetown, ON N0P 2C0 | Join the OSN for an opportunity to network with researchers from the University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus and learn about different research being done. This is a chance to build and strengthen connections between farmers and researchers. So bring your questions and curiosity! |