2002 GEORGIA TOBACCO TOUR SCHEDULE
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
7:00 pm Kick-Off Supper - Lowndes County Civic Center and County Extension Office (Hwy 84 East of Valdosta)
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
7:30 am Leave Shoney's Inn (Exit 16, off I-75 on Hwy 84 East )
8:50 am Arrive Martie Boyd- Berrien County
(Plant Spacing / Colored Plastic Demonstration)
- Forrest Connelly, CEC
9:30 am Arrive Tim and Steve McMillan Farm - Berrien County
(Regional Variety Farm Test / Released Varieties Demonstration / TSWV Reduction Test-Thrips Control Practices)
- Forrest Connelly, CEC
10:30 am Arrive Bowen Farm, Coastal Plain Experiment Station
Bob McPherson, Research Entomologist, CPES, Tifton
- Early-Season Thrips Management and TSWV Suppression
- Thrips, Budworm, Flea Beetle, Aphid & Hornworm Control
Mike Stephenson, Crop and Soil Science Tobacco Research Coordinator
- Regional Variety Trial
- Regional Sucker Control Plot
J. Michael Moore, Ext. Agronomist, Tobacco
- Transplant Water Fertilization
- Complete Fertilization Programs Demonstration
Alex Csinos, Plant Pathologist
- Effects of Plant Age on TSWV Infection and Actigard Phytotoxity
- Float Bed Water vs. Spray: Actigard, TSWV Phytotoxicity
12:00 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
1:20 am Arrive Black Shank Nursery - Coastal Plain Experiment Station
(Black Shank Variety Studies) Regional Small Plot Test, Regional Farm Test
- Alex Csinos, Research Pathologist, CPES
2:30pm Arrive Joey Anderson Farm - Coffee County
(Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus-Actigard)
- Rick Reed, CEC
3:30 pm Arrive James and Randall Griner Farm - Berrien County
(Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Admire/Platinum)
- Forrest Connelly, 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 13, 2002
8:00 am Leave Holiday Inn parking lot.
8:25 am Arrive A. J. Bennett and Son Farm - Ware County
(Influence of Telone II and Nemacur 3 on Admire 2F and Platinum 2SC in Controlling Granulate Cutworm and Suppression of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Flue-Cured Tobacco)
- Tony Otts, CEC
9:00 am Arrive Eddie Crawford Farm - Ware County
(Comparing Greenhouse Grown Plants to Plantbed Grown Plants, Treated in the Transplant Water with Admire 2F and Platinum 2SC, and the Influence of Telone II in Suppressing Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Flue-Cured Tobacco)
- Tony Otts, CEC
9:45 am Arrive Nathan Henderson Farm - Coffee County
(Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus-Nematicide Strip-till)
- Rick Reed, CEC
10:30 am Arrive James & Keith Harrell Farm - Coffee County
(Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus-Actigard)
- Rick Reed, CEC
11:30 am SPONSORED LUNCH
Courtesy of Alma Exchange Bank, First National Bank
& Bacon County Farm Bureau Women's Committee
- Bacon County High School, Alma
12:30 pm Leave Alma
12:40 am Arrive Alyson and Ashley Rewis Farm - Bacon County
(Transplant Water Fertilizer and Complete Fertilizer Programs Demonstrations)
- Danny Stanaland, CEC
1:30 pm Arrive Jeffrey Turner Farm -Appling County
(Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus-Actigard)
- James Clark, CEC
2:25 pm Arrive Paschol Pearce Farm - Appling County
(Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus - Actigard)
- James Clark, CEC
3:30 pm Arrive Del Beasley Farm - Evans County
(Released Varieties Demonstration)
- Mike Dollar, CEC
END OF TOUR
DIRECTIONS FOR 2002 GEORGIA TOBACCO TOUR
Wednesday, June 12
Mileage Directions (* - indicates traffic assistance needed)
* Right out of Shoney's onto Hwy 84
.2 Right onto I-75 North
33 * Right at the top of Exit 49 at Lenox
* Right onto Lenox Brookfield Rd. through Lenox
* Through 1 stop light
* Cross railroad tracks
1.4 * Left onto paved road after bulk curing barns
2 * Left onto CR 363 at Berrien Co. line
4.1 * Right onto Hwy 125
* Left onto CR 120
Plot on Right at mailbox # 2957
Martie Boyd Farm, Berrien County
* Left onto CR 120
0.7 * Right onto GA Hwy 125
2.2 * Right onto McMillan Rd
3.7 * Plot on Rt at Demonstration Sign
Tim and Steve McMillan Farm, Berrien County
* Right out of the field onto McMillan Rd
0.5 * Left at stop sign
4.5 * Right at stop sign onto Whitley Rd
0.1 * Left at stop sign onto U.S. 82 west
0.4 * Rightt onto Chula-Brookfield Rd.
3.3 * Left onto Ferry Lake Rd
2.2 * Right onto Harold Tyson Rd.(dirt road)
0.9 * Left onto Goat Road (dirt road) to Bowen Farm
0.8 * Right into Bowen Farm, Coastal Plain Experiment Station(CPES)
Bowen Farm, Coastal Plain Experiment Station
* Right out of Bowen Farm
1.3 * Right on Hwy 319 (no traffic assistance provided here to lunch)
0.3 * Left onto Sutton Rd.
0.8 * Left onto Mount Olive Church Rd.
Mileage Directions (* - indicates traffic assistance needed)
0.8 * Left onto Old Ocilla at stop sign
2.1 Right onto 20th Street at second traffic light
0.9 * Cross Tift Avenue at the traffic light
1.0 * Right at the traffic light onto GA Hwy 41
0.6 * Left on RDC Road
- SPONSORED LUNCH- Rural Development Center
Courtesy of the Georgia Tobacco Commission
* Left out of RDC drive onto RDC Rd.
0.1 * Cross RR tracks
* Left onto Moore Highway
0.2 Right onto Rainwater Rd.
0.2 * Left on Entomology Drive
Black Shank Nursery at end of drive in back of field
Black Shank Nursery, Coastal Plain Experiment Station
From Black Shank Nursery
0.2 * Right on Rainwater Rd
0.2 * Left onto Moore Highway
0.2 Right onto RDC Rd.
0.2 * Right onto Hwy 41
0.5 * Left at light onto 20th Street
2.0 * Left at second light onto Old Ocilla Rd
0.2 * Right at light
1.0 * Stop and Cross New River Church Rd
0.6 * Left onto Hwy 319
12.8 * Through light in Ocilla onto Hwy 32 East
12.0 * Right onto Hwy 149
3.0 Left onto Aubrey Paulk Rd.
0.5 Left into plot
Joey Anderson Farm, Coffee County
* Straight out of plot to stop sign
0.5 * Right at stop sign onto Younge Fussell Rd. to stop sign at Hwy 158
3.2 * Cross onto Bridgetown Road
8.3 * Left onto GA 90 into Willacoochee.
1.0 * Left onto Hwy 82 West
* Right onto Hwy 135 at the traffic light
8.0 Right onto GA Hwy 78
James and Randall Griner Farm, Berrien County
* Left onto GA Hwy 78
8.0 * Right onto Hwy 82 West
46 * Hwy 82 West to Holiday Inn, Waycross
(Mixon's pond on left in curve at Waresboro)
Waycross (traffic lights)
Register - Holiday Inn, Waycross Hwy 82 X US 1
7:30 pm Evening meal at pond on the Mixon Farm in sight of Hwy 82 at Waresboro.
Thursday, June 13
Mileage Directions (* - indicates traffic assistance needed)
* Left out of Holiday Inn onto Hwy 82 West and through Waycross
9.0 * Right into Industrial Park Drive
2.0 * Left at Stop Sign onto US 1
6.0 * Left onto Dave Bennett Rd.(first dirt road north of Dixie Union)
0.3 * Right onto dirt road before brick house on right
0.2 Left into field
A. J. Bennett Farm, Ware County
* Right out of field road
0.2 * Left onto Dave Bennett Rd.
1.0 * Right at stop sign onto US 1 to Dixie Union
Right at Dixie Union onto Telmore - Dixie Union Road
3.0 Crawford Demonstration on the right
Eddie Crawford Farm, Ware County
3.0 * Right at stop sign onto Hwy 158
9.5 * Left onto GA Hwy 64 at Wilsonville
Right into Demonstration Field
Nathan Henderson Farm, Coffee County
Left out of field onto Hwy 64
* Cross Hwy 158
8.0 Follow Hwy 64 to traffic light in Nicholls
7.0 * Continue on Hwy 64 to James Harrell plot on left
James Harrell Farm, Coffee County
Back to Nichols on Hwy 32
7.0 Left onto Hwy 32 to Alma
11.0 Left at stop light onto US 1 to Bacon County High School
0.7 Right into Bacon County High School
SPONSORED LUNCH
- lunch prepared by the Bacon County Farm Bureau Women's Committee
Courtesy of: Alma Exchange Bank and First National Bank
Left on US 1 to GA Hwy 32 East
1.0 Left at traffic light
3.0 Left onto Dedge Farm Rd
0.1 Left onto dirt road across from Forestry Commission Office
0.5 Rewis Demonstration on the left at the demonstration sign
Alyson and Ashley Rewis Demonstration, Bacon County
0.5 leave demonstration to stop sign
0.5 Left at stop sign on Bennet Still Rd
1.5 Left at stop sign onto Hwy 32 East
2.9 * Left onto Hwy 203
0.3 * Left following Hwy 203
10.3 * Left at stop sign onto GA Hwy 15
3.7 * Left onto Milikin Road (dirt), plot on left
Jeffrey Turner Demonstration, Appling County
0.3 Right at stop sign onto G.W. Turner Road (dirt)
1.0 Left at stop sign onto GA Hwy 15
12.1 * Cross 441 in Baxley
Right onto Hwy 144
12 * Left into tobacco field at end of blueberries
Paschol Pearce Farm, Appling County
* Left onto Hwy 144
5.5 When Hwy 144 merges with Hwy 169, Follow Hwy 169 to Mendes
16.0 Straight through Mendes
10.0 * Cross Hwy 280 at the caution light in Bellville
1.5 Right to follow Hwy 169
1.5 * Cross Hwy 129
5 Left onto CR 138 off Hwy 169
2 * Left onto Archie Mitchell Rd
1 Plot on left
Del Beasley Farm Plot, Evans County
THIS IS THE END OF THE 2002 GEORGIA TOBACCO TOUR
HAVE A SAFE TRIP HOME !