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2025 Ohio State Organic Grains Conference

The 3rd annual Ohio State Organic Grains Conference will be January 9-10, 2025 at Kalahari Resorts & Conventions in Sandusky, Ohio. This event is managed by Ohio State University Extension and the OFFER program.

Attendee registration is now open. Early bird rate of $140 lasts until December 6. Registration includes all meals during the conference and two full days of focused conference programming. 

Our 2025 program is still being finalized but here are some highlights for this year:

  • Presentations from Ohio State faculty and staff Osler Ortez (corn and emerging crops), Eugene Law (weed ecology), Doug Jackson-Smith (director of OFFER organic program), David Marrison (Farm Office), and Eric Richer (Farm Office). 
  • Exciting speakers from outside of Ohio including Erin SilvaUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison; Damon DeSutter of DeSutter Farms in Attica, Indiana; Connor Sible, University of Illinois; and Sophie Rivest-Auger, Centre for Expertise and Transfer in Organic and Local Agriculture, Quebec.
  • Farmer panels on flame weeding, marketing, and organic farm management.
  • Roundtable lunch discussions, targeted trade show for organic grain growers, and additional networking events and opportunities. 
  • CCA credits will be available.