More information will be posted as it becomes available. Contact Marc Thomas, Fort Valley State University Cooperative Extension, for event details and information about registration: thomasm@fvsu.edu.
The University of Georgia Southeast Georgia Research and Education Center (SREC) in Midville, Georgia, will host its annual field day on Wednesday, Aug. 14. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and tours of the 719-acre center are set to begin at 9:30 a.m. A free lunch will be available at 12:30 p.m. The field day will feature presentations and research findings from UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences researchers with an emphasis on cotton, corn, peanuts and soybeans.
Fort Valley State University will host a free lespedeza sericea field day. Lespedeza is a drought-tolerant, nitrogen-fixing crop proven to control worms in livestock. Hear practical agronomic and marketing advice from preeminent researchers, as well as an experienced grower. For more information, contact Niki Whitley at 478-391-4840 or whitleyn@fvsu.edu.
AGAware® equips young, beginning, and small with the skills they need to build a business plan, improve their existing plan, or analyze their cash flows to make their current operation more profitable. These one-day, seven-hour workshops address a variety of topics pertinent to up-and-coming farmers, including budget preparation, personal finance, risk management, succession planning, and more.
