Wesley Porter

Awards and Honors

• National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Precision Ag Researcher of the Year 2025 (2025)
• 2023 Outstanding Support by ANR or FACS Professional, State Staff (2023)
• Denise Miller National 4-H Innovator (2023)
• Excellence in Geospatial Programs (2023)
• Regional Award Winner of the Southern Region for Outstanding Achievement in Geospatial Programs Award (2023)
• National Award Winner for Excellence in Geospatial Programs Award (2023)
• The J. Tom Cothren Outstanding Young Cotton Agronomist Award (2023)
• Beltwide Cotton Conference Sustainability Session Student Award (2022)
• Field to Market Project Spotlight Honoree (2022)
• APRES Bailey Award (2022)
• Beltwide Cotton Conferences Cotton Engineering Session Student Paper Award (2022)
• MS State Graduate Summer Research Experience (2022)
• ASA Sustainability Session Student Paper Award (2022)
• ASABE AETC Student Poster Contest (2022)
• Anthony W. “Tony” LaFetra Scholarship Program sponsored by Rain Bird (2022)
• University of Georgia Aghon Agricultural Honors Society (2022)
• Second place, Hayden Godwin – Southern Branch American Society of Agronomy, M.S. Oral Competition (2021)
• ASABE Outstanding Reviewer 2021 (2021)
• 2021 ASABE Education Aids Blue Ribbon Award (2021)
• 2021 APRES Bailey Paper Award (Kaylyn Groce) (2021)
• 2021 ASABE Student Paper Competition (K. Groce 2nd Place) (2021)
• 2021 ASA Student Presentation Competition (2nd Place A Russell, Precision Ag Community) (2021)
• 2021 ASA Student Presentation Competition (3rd Place L Fuhrer) (2021)
• Second Place, Madan Sapkota – M.S. Poster Competition (2021)
• Irrigation Researcher of the Year Award (2020)
• Senior Specialist of the Year (2020)
• Blue Ribbon Extension Communication (2019)
• Michael J. Bader Junior Extension Scientist for the Tifton Campus (2019)
• Precision Ag Researcher/Educator of the Year (2019)
• ASA Extension Education Materials Award: Publications: Circular, fact sheet, brochure 16 pages or less (2018)
• American Society of Agronomy Extension Education Community Educational Material Awards (2018)
• Adjunct Professor (2014)