Upcoming Events
Don't miss the 2025 Dry Farming Field Days
2025 Dry Farm Field Day #1
OSU Center for Urban Horticulture, Corvallis, OR August 20, 2025 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. Free to attend, RSVP at: https://beav.es/NHu
Lucas Nebert, faculty with the OSU Extension Organics Team and Dry Farm Program, will showcase variety trials featuring perennial kale, collards, leafy greens, cucumber melons, and more! Enjoy taste testing, resource sharing, networking, and discussions on dry farming experiences this season.
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2025 Dry Farm Field Day #2
OSU Vegetable Research Farm, Corvallis, OR September 16, 2025 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Free to attend, RSVP at: https://beav.es/NHB
This event features presentations by:
- Lane Selman – Culinary Breeding Network
- Lucas Nebert – OSU Organic Extension & Dry Farm Program
- Matt Davis – Faculty Research Assistant, OSU College of Agriculture
Topics include: Methods for controlling blossom-end rot in dry-farmed tomatoes. A dry farm corn breeding project. Variety trials featuring sorghum, cowpeas, melons, and tomatoes
Following the presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to taste the results of these trials.
Past Events
10th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening: Archive of the program and links to the presentations from the meeting on February 5, 2025.
9th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening: Archive of the program and links to the presentations from the meeting on February 7, 2024.
8th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening: Archive of the program and links to the presentations from the meeting on February 8, 2023.
7th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening: Archive of the program and links to the presentations from the meeting on February 8, 2022.
6th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Meeting: Archive of the program, speaker bios, and presentations from the meeting on February 25, 2021
Virtual Adaptive Ag Water Symposium: 3 Presentations recorded on November 6, 2020 - As Oregon and other western states deal with drier growing seasons and higher wildfire risks, it is critical to increase our knowledge of how to grow more food with less water, design for enhanced water retention and infiltration, understand the future of water law in Oregon, as well as how to protect farms and crops using green fire breaks.
- Landscape Rehydration with Water Harvesting Structures (Andrew Millison, OSU Dept. of Horticulture, Senior Instructor)
- Oregon’s Ag Water Future – Water Law (Amy Landvoigt, Oregon Water Resources Department District 20 Watermaster)
- Drought, Wildfire Risk, and Climate Change (Matt Delaney, Natural Resource Specialist)
2020 Dry Farming Project Virtual Field Tours - The 2020 Dry Farm Project field tours were held on Wednesday mornings in August and September of 2020 There were nine field tours featuring different elements of the five core projects; Tomatoes, Corn Breeding, Soil Management, Solar Co-location with Dry-Farmed Vegetables, and Variety Trials.