University of Georgia
Growing organic peanuts in Georgia offers opportunities and
challenges. Interested? Learn more about it in a free forum Aug.
21 at the National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture
Laboratory in Tifton, Ga.
From 2 to 5 p.m., researchers, growers and economists will
discuss peanut varieties, management, production costs, weeds,
diseases and processing.
For more information, visit www.georgiaorganics.com on the Web.
Or call Albert Culbreath at (229) 386-3156. Or e-mail him at
spotwilt@tifton.uga.edu.
The event is sponsored by Georgia Organics and the University of
Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station. It ends with a peanut
boil featuring experimental organic peanuts grown at Heritage
Organic Farm near Savannah.