2004 GEORGIA TOBACCO TOUR SCHEDULE

Tuesday, June 8, 2004

7:00 pm Kick-Off Supper - Lowndes County Civic Center and County Extension Office (Hwy 84 East of Valdosta)

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

7:30 am Leave Guesthouse Inn (Exit 16, off I-75 on Hwy 84 East )

8:10 am Arrive Everett Franks Farm - Cook County

(Provado Use on Bed Produced Plants)

- Ben Tucker, CEC

8:50 am Arrive Larry McMillan/Bruce Dillard Farm- Berrien County

(TMV/ TSWV Cross Protection Trial)

- Forrest Connelly, CEC

9:15 am Arrive Tim and Steve McMillan Farm - Berrien County

(Regional Variety Farm Test / Released Varieties Demonstration)

- Forrest Connelly, CEC

10:30 am Arrive Bowen Farm, Coastal Plain Experiment Station

Alex Csinos, Research Pathologist, CPES, Tifton

- Timing Application of Actigard and Admire for TSWV Control in K326

- Multiple Plant Date Evaluation

- Actigard Phytotoxicity Evaluation

- Actigard Admire Evaluation of Age of Tobacco Transplants

Steve Mullis, Virology Lab Manager

- Temporal Analysis of TSWV and INSV Infection

J. Michael Moore, Ext. Agronomist, Tobacco

- Transplant Water Fertilization

- Sidedress Fertilizer Materials Demonstration

Mike Stephenson, Crop and Soil Science Tobacco Research Coordinator

- Regional Variety Trial

- Regional Sucker Control Plot

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 (continued)

Bob McPherson, Research Entomologist, CPES, Tifton

- Thrips Exclusion (Suppression) with Orthene Foliar Sprays

- Early Season Thrips Control & TSWV Suppression

- Bayer TD Treatments for TSWV Suppression

- Early Season Foliar Sprays for Control of Thrips & TSWV

- Tobacco Aphid Control

- Tobacco Budworm/Hornworm Control

- Thrips Exclusion Cages

- Thrips Survey in Tobacco Farmscape

12:15 pm SPONSORED LUNCH

Courtesy of the

Georgia Tobacco Commission

-Rural Development Center

University of Georgia, Tifton Campus, RDC Rd. off Hwy 41 at I-75 Exit 64.

1:10 pm Leave Rural Development Center to Black Shank Nursery, CPES

1:15 pm Arrive Black Shank Nursery - Coastal Plain Experiment Station

(Black Shank Variety Studies) Regional Small Plot Test, Regional Farm Test

- Alex Csinos, Research Pathologist, CPES

2:20 pm Arrive Joel Dixon Farm - Berrien County

(Rate of Admire on House Plants)

- Forrest Connelly, CEC

3:15 Arrive James and Randall Griner Farm - Berrien County

(Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Admire/Platinum)

- Forrest Connelly, CEC

4:10 Arrive Joey Anderson Farm - Coffee County

(Actigard Trial Using House Plants)

- Eddie McGriff, CEC

4:50 Arrive Nathan Henderson Farm - Coffee County

(Strip Till Tobacco Trial)

- Eddie McGriff, CEC

5:00 pm Check-in Holiday Inn, Waycross

6:30 pm Social and 7:30 pm Supper - Mixon's Pond - Hwy. 82, Waresboro, Ware Co.

Thursday, June 10, 2004

7:30 am Leave Holiday Inn parking lot.

7:45 am Arrive Mixon Farm - Ware County

(Actigard and Admire Treatments for Control of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus)

(Sucker Control Programs)

- Tony Otts, CEC

8:15 am Arrive Eddie Crawford Farm - Ware County

(Comparing Belay .16 WDG to Admire 2F, Lorsban 4E, And Mocap 6EC In Controlling Mole Crickets, Granulate Cutworm And Suppression of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Flue-cured Tobacco)

- Tony Otts, CEC

8:45am Arrive A. J. Bennett and Son Farm - Ware County

(Comparing Belay .16 WDG to Admire 2F, Lorsban 4E, And Mocap 6EC In Controlling Mole Crickets, Granulate Cutworm And Suppression of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Flue-cured Tobacco)

- Tony Otts, CEC

9:45 am Arrive David Lee Farm - Bacon County

(Regional Variety Farm Test)

- Danny Stanaland, CEC

10:30am Arrive Alyson and Ashley Rewis Farm - Bacon County

(Sidedress Fertilizer Programs Demonstration and Messenger Number of Applications Test)

- Danny Stanaland, CEC

11:30 am SPONSORED LUNCH

Courtesy of Alma Exchange Bank, First National Bank

& Bacon County Farm Bureau Women's Committee

- HillBilly's Restaurant, Alma

12:30 pm Leave Alma

1:00 pm Arrive Jeffrey Turner Farm -Appling County

(Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus - Rates of Admire)

- James Clark, CEC

2:00 pm Arrive Paschol Pearce Farm - Appling County

(Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus - Time of Application of Admire)

- James Clark, CEC

3:15 pm Arrive Del Beasley Farm - Evans County

(Released Varieties Demonstration)

- Mike Dollar, CEC