Program

Wed, Sept 3^rd

• 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 4^th

• 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
• 12:00pm Catered lunch at the UGA Southwest Research and Education Center, Plains, GA
  • Tour Georgia Seed Development facility in Plains
    • Foundation seed production and peanut shelling process -Roger Boerma & Caleb Warrington
  • 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 5^th

• 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