Spring Regional Spotlight: Let's Talk Manure!
Get ready to fertilize your senses! Just down the road from the Hotel Marshfield is the AgSource Food and Environmental Laboratory. While this lab doesn't process manure samples, the Stratford laboratory not far away does - if you're lucky maybe you'll get a whiff of manuré during this presentation at the Spring Regional Meeting of "Let's Talk Manure: Nutrient Management Mapping and More!" by Pam Ledin of AgSource.
Determining where manure can and cannot go on a farm field is serious business and has more complexities than you may think. And nutrient management mapping is key to making nutrient management plans for farms come to life. Pam will show examples of the GIS work that she has done from nutrient management maps to interactive route maps for sample collection.
AgSource is an agricultural cooperative with laboratories and field teams working throughout the state and beyond providing analyses and consulting services to enable their clients to make data-driven management decisions. Come learn a little about Pam's work and the work of AgSource as a whole!
Pam Ledin is a GIS Analyst/Mapping Technician for AgSource Laboratories. Below are some fun facts about Pam, by Pam!
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Have been land surveying since age 1 (my dad was a land surveyor)
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Graduated from UW-Stevens Point in 2007 double majoring in natural resource management and biology, and minored in soil science
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Followed jobs to Baraboo, Sparta, and Florence before moving to Ashland
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Worked at Bayfield County in different positions including Real Property Lister 2012 – 2023
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Currently the GIS Analyst & Mapping Technician for AgSource
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My name spelled backwards spells “map” (come on, that’s pretty cool)
Make sure to register for the Spring Regional Meeting and get your hotel room now, so you can hear Pam and others speak at the meeting! Additional details, including the full preliminary agenda, can be found on the event page.