1. Registering County PAT & FACT Meetings
For OSU Extension Educators

2. How to Register a Meeting in your County
Online registration of your pesticide applicator trainings and fertilizer certification for private applicators in your county
Upon registering with this system, your meeting will be publicized at pested.osu.edu & nutrienteducation.osu.edu
The Ohio Department of Agriculture will mail you the necessary codes and forms required for your meetings.

3. pested.osu.edu/extensioneducator/holdingmeeting/
nutrienteducation.osu.edu/nutrienteducator
Or Here!
SB 1 included several items to address water quality:
Dredging and disposal of dredged material in Lake Erie
Additional restrictions for WWTP
Restriction of application of agricultural nutrients (fertilizer and manure)
Click Here!

4. Username=Your First Name
Password=Your Last Name

5. Enter your county from drop down menu
Contact info will auto fill with your info OR
Click update to modify contact info
Enter the class location from drop down menu, or select “new” and enter new location
-not new, ODNR authority used in past

6. Enter meeting date and time
Note: Each meeting must be entered individually. You must log out and log back in to enter your next meeting.
Not WOTUS
Not a new definition

7. Program Type Standard: 3 hour meeting
Receive single code for all 3 hrs
1 hour fert recert optional (add at bottom under fertilizer session)
Video: PAT and Fert recert make-ups
Specialty: Core + category (less than 3 hrs)
Receive individual codes for core and each category
Can add additional cats, if standard is > 3 hrs
1 hr fert recert optional
Fertilizer: Any fertilizer training
-Statewide
-Respond to complaints. not just about manure application, for dairies also silage leachate, milk house water, lot runoff, etc.
- Not limited to dairies or even livestock, also erosion and silviculture

8. Forms Enter # of forms needed
Same form for PAT and Fert Recertification
3 hour FACT Forms are separate
FACT forms will be the same for those with and without a pesticide license
Both forms will be sent based on number you indicate

9. Standard Session Must equal 3 credit hrs (won’t let you exceed 3)
Additional categories should be entered here!
1 hr Fert optional, enter here
Defined in code by watershed
Almost 5 million acres (4,960,000) in
24 counties

10. Specialty, Video & Additional Session
Programs less than 3 credit hrs enter here
Additional categories exceeding the 3 hour standard and pesticide videos may be entered here!!
1 hr fert can be entered here
All three restrictions that follow are from the NRCS 590 standard.
What is snow-covered? Intent – address situation where melting snow would melt with manure and significantly increase the volume of potential polluted runoff
15.05 rule for distressed watershed >1” of snow
If application melts snow, then it’s not snow-covered.
What is frozen? Intent – address situation where infiltration would be slowed by frozen ground, leading to increased runoff
If you can travel on top of wet/saturated soil, then it is frozen.

11. Must select Program Type: Fertilizer
FACT Training (3 hour)
Must select Program Type: Fertilizer
Then select: 3-hour 1st time training
What is saturated? –Field test – free water appears when soil is bounced, kneaded, or squeezed.

12. Stand-alone 1 hour Fertilizer Recert
Must select Program Type: Fertilizer
Then select: one hour fertilizer recertification or one hour video training

13. pested. osu. edu nutrienteducation. osu. edu Questions
pested.osu.edu nutrienteducation.osu.edu Questions? Contact Jenny Andon
What source for prediction? How will this be enforced?
Any source of weather prediction is acceptable. Applicator responsible for checking and keeping forecast before application.
In case of complaint, DSWR can get forecast for the day of the application in the zip code from NOAA/NWS. If NOAA forecast shows >50% of ½” in 24h., then application is a violation of law, UNLESS the applicator can show another forecast.