Make your lawn look like a premier golf course. See the
latest research on ornamentals.
Or learn more about wetlands. You can do it all at
FutureScapes.
FutureScapes, the third annual
will be at the
Station in Griffin, Ga., on
Thursday, Sept. 3. The event will focus on home and professional
landscapes, forest lands
and wetlands.
Ag Showcase highlights Georgia agriculture. The University
of Georgia College of
Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences, Fort Valley
State University and Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural College are sponsors.
“Ag Showcase was conceived as a showcase for the many
contributions the College of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences makes to people in our
state,” said
director. “We
envisioned that such an event probably should be at different
sites around the state,
particularly in Tifton, Griffin and Fort Valley.”
The first two Ag Showcases were on the CAES Tifton campus.
The third will be on the
Griffin campus. And plans are already under way to have the
fourth at Fort Valley State.
FutureScapes will begin with three concurrent field days. The
fee for either the
Turfgrass Field Day or the Ornamentals Open House is $25 before
Aug. 14 and $40 after
that. For the Land Use and Forest Management Field Day, the fee
is $10 before Aug. 14 and
$15 after that. The fee for each includes lunch.
The Turfgrass Field Day will include updates on managing tall
fescue, bent grass,
zoysia, buffalo grass and seashore paspalum. It will also cover
disease and insect
problems and fire ant control.
Visitors will see the UGA
Diagnostics Digital Imaging System, too. This system slashes
the time needed to
diagnose homeowners’ plant disease problems.
The Ornamentals Open House will cover topics from soil
amending and composting to
mulches and plant growth regulators. Visitors will see insect-
resistant azalea varieties
and low-pesticide landscapes. They will also tour the Georgia
Station Research and
Education Garden.
The Land Use and Forest Management Field Day will update
visitors on managing forest
land. Topics range from controlling forest pests and prescribed
burning to grazing lands
and waterfowl management.
Experts at this field day will tell about food plots for
deer. They will show how to
control wildlife damage, too, and how to manage forest land for
wild turkeys and other
wildlife. They will tell about wetlands, building ponds,
managing waterfowl and
stabilizing stream banks, too.
After lunch, Ag Showcase ’98 will be
open to the public, with no
admission fee. Displays will highlight research projects at the
three ag colleges. Cotton,
corn and other Georgia crops will be growing in a nearby
field.
High school students can learn about careers in agriculture.
Representatives from each
of the sponsoring schools will tell about their academic
programs.
“The focus of the third Ag Showcase on ornamentals, turf and
land use is
compatible with many of the programs at the Griffin campus,”
Buchanan said.
“These areas also are some of fastest-growing aspects of Georgia
agriculture. They
are a natural focus for this Ag Showcase.”
To learn more about FutureScapes or sign up for a field day,
call (770) 229-3477. Or
contact your county Extension Service office. To view the
complete program, visit the Web
site at http://www.griffin.peachnet.edu/agshow.
