Sweet Corn Growers,
Stripling Irrigation Research Park is hosting a Sweet Corn Production Workshop at SIRP on Tuesday July 22.
Here’s the tentative schedule for the Workshop at SIRP:
9am – Welcome (Calvin Perry)
9:10am – Fertility and Varieties (Tim Coolong)
9:30am – Insect Management (Stormy Sparks)
9:50am – Weed Management (Andy Shirley)
10:10am – Weather Station Network (Ian Flitcroft)
10:30am – Break
10:45am – Irrigation Management including Drip (Gary Hawkins)
11:05am – Previous Irrigation Management Projects, Soil Moisture Sensors (Rad Yager)
11:25am – Precision Ag, Soil Mapping, Etc. (Wes Porter)
11:45am – Food Safety, Sanitation Management (Bill Hurst)
12:05pm – Lunch
**For lunch arrangements, we will need to get a head count by Thursday July 17.
Please RSVP by that date. Call the Colquitt County Extension office if you would like to attend.
Note – we are in the process of requesting CCA ceu credits.
Thanks,
Jeremy M. Kichler