August 10-12, 2027
Elora Research Station
Guelph, Ontario
Registration will open in 2027
Expo
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Exhibitors
Manure Expo 2027 in
Professionalism in Nutrient Management
The North American Manure Expo visits Canada in 2027! Join us at the Elora Research Station near Guelph, Ontario where attendees will enjoy tours, live equipment demonstrations, educational workshops and explore more than 50 exhibitors at the premier outdoor event dedicated to nutrient management.
Join us next August in Ontario to experience manure innovation, technology and solutions.
2027 Expo Location
Elora Research Station
Near 6156 Wellington Rd 7.
Access the site from the West side of the station, from the 2nd line.
Nearest Airports
Canada: Toronto Pearson International (YYZ), John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
USA: Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF)
Accommodations
Hotel information to come
Agenda
Full schedule to come
Credits will be offered where applicable.
Tour Day
July 28th is dedicated exclusively to off-site Manure Expo Tours. Choose one of the below and be sure to register early to secure your seat on the bus.
- Tour early-bird prices start at $50 USD per person
- For the best rates, register online by June 30, 2026.
- Pre-registration is required, space is limited and walk-up registrations are not guaranteed.
- To help protect the health of livestock and maintain farm biosecurity, we ask that tour participants avoid contact with livestock for at least 24 hours prior to the tour.
7:30am – 12:15pm
Tour 1: Composting, Renewable Energy and Modern Cattle Care
This half‑day experience will highlight agricultural operations that transform waste into valuable resources. Stops include the Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District (NRDs), one of 23 NRDs in Nebraska, where we’ll hear about the Bazile Groundwater Management Area project that is a collaborative monitoring, research, and education effort among NRDs, agencies, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Beller Feedlot, a modern cattle operation using carbon for a bedding pack in open lots, runoff collection and application through a center pivot using a solar panel array, and composting and sale of manure; and Reigle Cattle Company, a family‑run cattle operation that recently expanded with the addition of new roller‑compacted concrete pens.
- Registration includes a two-day Expo pass
7:45am – 12:00pm
Tour 2: Research, Technology and Regenerative Farming
The tour includes the Haskell Agricultural Laboratory, a University of Nebraska site featuring long-term organic versus inorganic fertilizer trials, nitrogen-sensing technology, and insights into nearby egg producer Michael Foods. It also stops at the Kvols Beef Feedlot, a multi-generation livestock operation that expanded with the addition of a deep-pit beef barn and shares real-world experiences with the system. The final stop is the Junior Pfanstiel Farm, a 270-acre regenerative organic operation focused on reducing chemical inputs and improving soil fertility through the use of cover crops.
- Registration includes a two-day Expo pass
8:00am – 3:15pm
Tour 3: Poultry Production and Manufacturing
Experience a look at the poultry industry from barn to processing and equipment manufacturing. Participants will take a drive‑by tour of a broiler farm, where the on‑board guide will highlight key features of the active broiler facility. The tour then stops at the Lincoln Premium Poultry Processing Plant, a state‑of‑the‑art Fremont facility built to supply Costco’s rotisserie chickens and capable of processing more than 10 million pounds of chicken each week while employing roughly 1,200 workers. The final stop is Mighty Giant, a factory that produces tub grinders and litter‑loading equipment essential for poultry manure handling.
- Registration includes a two-day Expo pass
- Registration includes lunch
1:00pm – 6:00pm
Tour 4: Innovation in Livestock and Manure Equipment
This tour features a half-day exploration of two livestock operations and one manufacturing facility. Participants will visit Zobel Family Farms, a three-generation beef and pork operation recognized with the 2013 Environmental Stewardship Award for its commitment to responsible production practices. The tour then stops at Bar K, a beef feedlot that showcases a deep pit confinement system designed to protect the environment and retain valuable nitrogen during manure collection and storage. The final stop is West Point Implement, a regional leader in manure application and feedlot management equipment, including the well-known SpreadAll Manure Spreader line.
- Registration includes a two-day Expo pass
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Tour 5: Family Fun: Ag, Wildlife and Nebraska History
This tour is a full-day experience designed for visitors of all ages and features a blend of agriculture, wildlife, and Nebraska history. The tour begins at Pfanny’s Farm, a family-owned agrotourism destination dedicated to land stewardship and known for combining traditional and modern crop and livestock management practices that support long-term soil and natural resource health. Participants also visit 4 Aces Dairy, a 180-head robotic dairy where automation significantly reduces labor needs and guests can observe milking technology in action through a 24/7 viewing room. The tour continues with a stop at Grove Lake Wildlife Management Area, home to a 50-acre fishing lake and more than 2,000 acres of prime habitat for deer, turkey, pheasant, and quail, where visitors will enjoy a boxed lunch. The day concludes at the Ashfall Fossil Beds, a rare type of fossil site called lagerstätten that provides an exceptional ecological “snapshot” of ancient organisms.
- Registration does not include any passes to the Expo days.
- The $80 registration includes lunch and fees required to enter Phanny’s Farm & Ashfall Fossil Beds
Expo Day 1
7:30am
Expo Grounds Open
Explore the expo and visit with exhibitors throughout the entire day
9:00am
Liquid Manure Demonstrations
10:00am
Confined Space Safety Training Demonstration
10:30am – 11:00am
Educational Sessions
Sheep & Goat Arena
Swine Arena
Mini Theatre
10:30am
MIND YOUR MANURE MANNERS
Amy Schmidt
MIND YOUR MANURE MANNERS
Mind your manure manners: Manure and nutrient management decisions affect your neighbors, the environment, and your bottom line. Learn how to “mind your manure manners” when stockpiling or applying manure to maximize profitability, and minimize environmental risks and community concerns.
MAXIMIZING MANURE NITROGEN EFFICIENCY: THE ROLE OF NITROGEN INHIBITORS
Javed Iqbal
MAXIMIZING MANURE NITROGEN EFFICIENCY: THE ROLE OF NITROGEN INHIBITORS
This session covers using nitrogen inhibitors with manure to improve nitrogen use efficiency and reduce losses. Topics include inhibitor types, efficacy under different conditions and impacts on volatilization, leaching, yield, and profitability, with practical guidance from field research.
PANEL: CAREERS IN MANURE
Ryan Loofe, Robb Meinen, Michelle Bertholet, Joe Guenther, Megan Dresbach
PANEL: CAREERS IN MANURE
How does one “fall into” a career in manure? Curious about what kinds of jobs are included in the manure field? Hear from a panel of professionals which includes marketing and media management, agronomy and consulting, education, and application. Panelists will discuss how they came into their jobs, why they stay, and how you, your friends or your family can capitalize on the various career opportunities in the field of manure management.
11:00am
MANURE SAMPLING TECHNIQUES & TIPS
Melissa Wilson, Nancy Bohl Bormann
MANURE SAMPLING TECHNIQUES AND TIPS
This session will cover the who, what, when, where and why of manure sampling to give you confidence in getting a representative sample. Having current manure samples collected with best practices will aid in creating a manure management plan (MMP) tailored to your farming operation. Learn how to compare your manure results to thousands in ManureDB, the manure database.
EDGE-OF-FIELD PRACTICES FOR PREVENTION OF CONTAMINATED SURFACE WATER
Matt Helmers
EDGE-OF-FIELD PRACTICES FOR PREVENTION OF CONTAMINATED SURFACE WATER
Reducing runoff is critical for decreasing pollutant movement to downstream waterbodies. This session will highlight the potential nutrient reductions from a variety of practices and demonstrate some of these practices using the Conservation Station portable rainfall simulator.
11:30am
Industry Session: From Sample to Spreader: Smart Manure Testing That Pays
Nick Ward
INDUSTRY SESSION: FROM SAMPLE TO SPREADER: SMART MANURE TESTING THAT PAYS
Manure is a valuable, variable fertilizer — but a poorly taken sample can return the wrong numbers to you and the wrong nutrients to your field. Dr. Nick Ward of Ward Laboratories covers representative sampling, common collection mistakes, and how accurate analysis protects your yields, your wallet, and water quality.
12:00pm
Research Poster Judging Session
1:30pm
Trolley/Buses depart to Off-site Agitation Demos
2:00pm
Agitation Demonstrations
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Educational Sessions
Sheep & Goat Arena
Swine Arena
Mini Theatre
4:00pm
COMPARISON OF MANURE REGULATIONS ACROSS STATE LINES
Dan Andersen
COMPARISON OF MANURE REGULATIONS ACROSS STATE LINES
Regulations change at the border. Learn how Midwestern states differ in manure types, recordkeeping, and N and P rules, and what that means for application rates, costs, and manure value. Built for crop advisors and applicators working across state lines, or seeing what might be coming your way.
MANURE VARIABILITY: USING MANURE SENSING TO IMPROVE NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT
Joe Sanford
MANURE VARIABILITY: USING MANURE SENSING TO IMPROVE NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT
This session explores real-time manure sensing technologies to improve nutrient management. Participants will learn how manure variability affects application accuracy and how tools like NIRS provide instant nutrient analysis. Practical setup, applications, and research on optimizing nitrogen and phosphorus management will be covered.
Manure Gas 101: Don’t Trust Your Nose
Matt Nonnenman, Aaron Yoder
MANURE GAS 101: DON’T TRUST YOUR NOSE
Learn about the types of gases present in and around manure, associated hazards, the measurement of gases, foaming hazards and ventilation methods to reduce the concentrations of manure gases.
4:30pm
WEED SEEDS AND OTHER MANURE CONTAMINANTS
Chryseis Modderman
WEED SEEDS AND OTHER MANURE CONTAMINANTS
Weed seeds in manure can be a significant problem, increasing a field’s weed seed bank when the manure is land applied. This session will discuss strategies for reducing weed seed viability and managing other contaminants in manure.
INNOVATIONS IN MANURE MANAGEMENT
Mahmoud Sharara, Doug Hamilton
INNOVATIONS IN MANURE MANAGEMENT
This session highlights innovations in manure management, focusing on anaerobic digestion within a circular bioeconomy. It covers digester systems, U.S. adoption trends, and community models, along with opportunities for advanced processing to improve nutrient recovery and create value-added products.
5:00pm
INDUSTRY SESSION: PUCKS PUMP SCHOOL
Doug Greving & Eric Ramsey, Puck Enterprises
INDUSTRY SESSION: PUCKS PUMP SCHOOL
Join members from Puck in a discussion on liquid manure dragline systems including safety, return on investment, and pump control systems. Doug and Eric bring years of experience both from a sales perspective as well as drawing from their experience working on a pumping crew to provide valuable insights and information on all aspects of liquid dragline systems.
5:00pm
Manure Expo Tailgate Party in the Beer Garden
Dinner courtesy of Nebraska Pork Producers & AFAN
Expo Day 2
7:30am
Expo Grounds Open
Explore the expo and visit with exhibitors throughout the entire day
9:00am
Solid Manure Demonstrations
10:30am – 1:00pm
Educational Sessions
Sheep & Goat Arena
Swine Arena
Mini Theatre
10:30am
MANURE AND FERTILIZER: SOIL, CROP AND WATER IMPACTS
Amy Schmidt
MANURE AND FERTILIZER: SOIL, CROP AND WATER IMPACTS
Manure and inorganic fertilizers supply essential nutrients but differ in how they interact with soil, crops, and water. This session compares nutrient availability, soil health impacts, and water quality risks to support informed management decisions.
PANEL: FROM BARN TO FIELD: PLASTIC PATHWAYS
Brian Grady, Rod Geise, Eugene Traush, Bobbi Stromer, Alfredo DiConstanzo
PANEL: FROM BARN TO FIELD: PLASTIC PATHWAYS
Use of plastics in agriculture contributes to soil contamination, microplastic pollution, and reduced long-term soil health. Single-use plastics like mulch films, bale wrap, and silage bags and covers can degrade into contaminants that can alter soil pH, disrupt microbial communities and hinder plant growth. Additionally, plastic residues can leach hazardous chemicals which could end up in the food chain. The panel will address the concerns with plastics use in agricultural settings, alternatives to traditional plastics, recycling of agricultural plastics and equipment design to deal with agricultural plastics.
Manure management system selection: ManureTech decision-support tools
Rick Stowell
MANURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SELECTION: MANURETECH DECISION SUPPORT-TOOLS
This session will introduce the ManureTech Decision-Support Tools for dairy and swine and demonstrate their use in selecting manure management systems that fit prioritized needs of individual livestock operations.
11:00am
Filling the Soil Health Gap with Manure
Caro Cordova
FILLING THE SOIL HEALTH GAP WITH MANURE
This session explores how manure can play a central role in rebuilding soil health and closing critical gaps in modern cropping systems. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how manure contributes to key soil health components, including soil organic matter, biological activity, and nutrient cycling.
DYNAMIC MANURE CREDITING WITH IN-SEASON NITROGEN MANAGEMENT
Jackson Stansell
DYNAMIC MANURE CREDITING WITH IN-SEASON N MANAGEMENT
Manure nutrient availability is highly variable, making accurate crediting a challenge. New guidelines reflect this uncertainty. Real-time data and decision support enable dynamic manure crediting – improving accuracy, aligning nutrients with crop needs, and supporting better in-season nitrogen management decisions.
11:30am
Manure injection: Proper placement
John Dietrich
Manure injection: Proper placement
In this session, John Dietrich will discuss GPA by manure type, reasons for proper placement and how to achieve the best ROI. See how true injection vs surface GPA pays the N bill and stops nutrient runoff.
1:00pm
Industry Session: Dangers from H2S gas in farming and waste lagoon treatment
Peter Flowers, Alan Rein
Dangers from H2S gas in farming and waste lagoon treatment
One of the greatest challenges when managing farm waste is stopping deadline H2S gas from forming. This presentation will illustrate how adding inorganic oxygen rich molecules in an anaerobic pretreatment can deliver multiple benefits – preventing H2S formation, reducing odor and corrosion, and increasing bacterial growth which reduces sludge by speeding up the breakdown of organic matter.
3:00pm
Hose Release Demonstration
3:30pm
Spill Response Demonstration
5:00pm
Expo Grounds Close ~ See you next year in Ontario!
2027 Speakers
Aaron Yoder
Alan Rein
Alfredo DiCostanzo
Amy Millmier Schmidt
Bobbi Stromer
Brian Grady
Carolina Cordova
Chryseis Modderman
Daniel Andersen
Doug Greving
Doug Hamilton
Dr. Nick Ward
Eric Ramsey
Eugene Trausch
Jackson Stansell
Javed Iqbal
Joe Guenther
Joe Sanford
John Dietrich
Mahmoud Sharara
Matt Helmers
Matt Nonnenmann
Megan Dresbach
Melissa Wilson
Michelle Bertholet
Nancy Bohl Bormann
Peter Flowers
Richard Stowell
Robb Meinen
Rod Geise
Ryan Loofe
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