Program
Wed, Sept 3rd
- 2:00 – 6:00pm Registration Table at Hilton Garden Inn
- 6:00 -7:00pm Social Hour
- 7:00 – 9:00pm Dinner at Hilton Garden Inn – Tifton, GA
Thu, Sept 4th
- 8:00am Bus leaves for Plains
- Tour Soybean Breeding Plots at the UGA Southwest Research and Education Center
- Soybean insect resistance – Wayne Parrott
- Soybean nematode resistance – Melissa Mitchum
- Soybean herbicide technologies and tolerance – Eric P. Prostko
- Insect management in ultra-late soybeans and bee pollinators – David Buntin
- Soybean breeding and advancement – Zenglu Li, Brian Little, and graduate students
- ALMACO – Rotary Technology Plot Research combine display – Todd Vincent
- 12:00pm Catered lunch at the UGA Southwest Research and Education Center, Plains, GA
- Tour Georgia Seed Development facility in Plains – Roger Boerma, Caleb Warrington, and JT Tanner
- Tour soybean production farm
- Soybean production and management – Nicholas John Shay
- 6:00pm Social hour and dinner at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture, 1392 Whiddon Mill Rd, Tifton, GA 31793
Fri, Sept 5th
- 8:00am Bus leaves for UGA Lang Farm at 276 Rigdon Aultman Road in Tifton, Georgia
- Tour UGA Lang Farm at 276 Rigdon Aultman Road in Tifton, Georgia
- Soybean irrigation SMART app – George Vellidis
- Precision Agriculture – Luan P. Oliveira
- GA State Variety Tests – Danial Mailhot
- Soybean Advanced Yield Trials – Zenglu Li
- Tour Bayer’s soybean plots in Tifton – Sam McDonald
- Tour GA State Seed Testing Lab
- 12:00pm Box lunch (Chick-fil-A) to go
