Tifton Campus

KMC refurbishes donated peanut combine

November 3, 2009 — Peanut picking recently got a little easier and safer on the University of Georgia Tifton Campus thanks to the donation of a used two-row peanut combine refurbished by the Kelley Manufacturing Company in Tifton. Read more >>

PICTURED ABOVE: Front row left to right, Charles Sumner (KMC), Bennie Branch (KMC), Scott Angle (CAES dean), Lanier Carson (KMC), Steve Brown (CAES associate dean), John Beasley (CAES agronomist), Joe West (CAES assistant dean Tifton). Back row left to right, John Paulk (CAES), Mike Tanton (KMC).

Merritt Myers reception

October 21, 2009 — The UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences hosted a reception for Merritt Myers on the UGA Tifton Campus Oct. 14. The Sumter County native recently moved from Washington, where she served as U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston's legislative director, to Valdosta to be his First District Field Representative and agriculture liaison. Read more >>

Culpepper presented with D.W. Brooks Award

October 8, 2009 — Stanley Culpepper was honored for his work Oct. 6 in Athens, Ga., during the annual D.W. Brooks Lecture and Faculty Awards for Excellence ceremony. He received the 2009 Award for Excellence in Extension.

A native of North Carolina, Culpepper grew up on a bicentennial family farm where cotton, peanut and soybeans were grown. As a UGA Cooperative Extension weed scientist, he focuses on weed control in cotton, vegetables and small grains. He is actively involved in applied weed management research. Read more >>

Crawford named to Georgia Ag Hall of Fame

October 6, 2009 — The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences inducted Johnny Crawford into the Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Athens Sept. 25.

Crawford was a charter member of the UGA Cooperative Extension Cotton Team and head of the university's Extension plant pathology department and is president of South Central Gin Company.

Crawford joined the UGA faculty first as a UGA Extension plant pathologist on the Tifton campus working on cotton. He later became an Extension agronomist working on cotton and in the early 1990's he was named head of the Extension plant pathology department. Read more >>

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