Thursday, July 10, 2008
8:30 a.m - 4:30 p.m.
 MSU Kellogg Center, Lincoln Room
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

Conference Objectives:

  • To understand Phosphorus cycling and its impact on Michigan's water resources.

  • To understand current and future trends in agricultural and lawn/turf P fertilizer management.

  • To facilitate collaboration to implement priority recommendations from the DEQ advisory committee.

Speakers and facilitators include:

  • Senator Patty Birkholz
  • Tom Coon, Director, MSUE
  • Al Steinman, Annis Water Resources Institute, Grand Valley State University
  • Brad Joern, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University
  • Gordon Wenk, Director, Environmental Stewardship Program, Michigan Department of Agriculture

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Registration

Cost: $50.00 (includes luncheon) if registered by June 30, 2008. Late registration fee of $60.00 (after June 30). Registration after July 7, $60.00 (lunch is not guaranteed).

Full Time Students
Cost: $35.00 (includes luncheon)

Sponsored By:

 • MSUE Water Area of Expertise • MSUE • MSU Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
• CSREES Great Lakes Regional Water Program •  MSU Institute of Water Research
• Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program and Michigan Department of Agriculture
 

Agenda

   
8:30 am   Registration and Refreshments
    Moderator:  Jody Pollok, Host Michigan Farm & Garden TV Show, and Executive Director of the Corn Marketing Program of Michigan and the Michigan Corn Growers Association
9:00   Welcome and conference charge
Dr. Tom Coon, MSU Extension Director
Senator Patty Birkholz
9:30   Phosphorus cycling in Michigan’s surface waters
Dr. Al Steinman, Annis Water Resources Center, Grand Valley State University
10:00   Best Management Practices (BMPs) in agricultural systems to minimize phosphorus loss
Dr. Brad Joern, Professor, Soil Chemistry and Plant Nutrition, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University
10:30   Break
11:00   BMPs in lawn/turf systems to minimize phosphorus loss
Dr Thomas Nikolai, Crop and Soil Sciences Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing
11:30   Moving forward to protect Michigan’s water quality: DEQ Phosphorus management advisory committee report
Joe Rathbun, Nonpoint Source Unit, Water Bureau, Department of Environmental Quality 
12:00   Lunch and Luncheon Address
Regulatory vs. Educational approaches to phosphorus management
Gordon Wenk, Acting Chief Deputy Director for the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA)
1:30   Implementing collaborative solutions for Michigan: Work group instructions
Jody Pollok
1:45  
  Agricultural work group
(Crops and livestock)		 Urban work group
(Lawn/turf and storm water)
MSU Facilitator Marilyn Thelen, MSUE
Allen Krizek, MSUE		 Deb Swartz, MDA
Ruth Kline-Robach, MSUE
Technical
and
Policy advisors		 Lee Jacobs, MSU Crop and Soil Science Dept

Scott Piggott, Michigan Farm Bureau

 Janis Bobrin, Washtenaw County Drain Commissioner

Ric Lawson, Huron River Watershed Council
Work group tasks
  • What are the priority issues (from the DEQ phosphorus management advisory committee)?
  • What are the most important outcomes?
  • What are the first steps?
  • What resources are needed?
3:00   Break
3:15   Phosphorus Reduction Issues Forum
Technical and Policy Advisors
4:15   Future Directions
4:30   Adjourn