The CSRA (Central Savannah River Area) Conservation Tillage
Demonstration Farm in Burke County will host the annual
Conservation Tillage Field Day July 19.
The field day will begin at 8:30 a.m. and finish with lunch. It
will have a great array of research and demonstration plots
showing aspects of conservation tillage. Among them will be:
- Peanut studies of twin rows in strip tillage and of other
tillage techniques, and a look at “AU-Pnut,” an
advisory program for peanut growers. - Cotton studies on stack gene varieties, fungicides, thrips
control, skip-row cotton in conservation tillage options and
others. - Corn, soybean and cotton variety trials.
- Double-crop systems including wheat with cotton or Bt
corn. - Cover crops, potash options, equipment, herbicide
symptomology, sod-based rotation and others.
To get to the field day from Waynesboro or Augusta on U.S.
Highway 56, head southwest on U.S. Highway 23, then left onto
Hancock Landing Road. Turn right onto Thomas Road. The CSRA
Conservation Tillage Demonstration Farm is on the left.
To get brochures, a map and a final program, contact Richard
McDaniel, Burke County coordinator for the University of
Georgia Extension Service, at (706) 554-2119. (Or e-mail rmcdan@uga.edu).
