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January 9, 2013

Georgia Cotton Commission holding meeting

TIFTON — The Georgia Cotton Commission will be holding its’ sixth annual meeting Jan. 30 at the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center in Tifton.

The program speakers will be Mike Tate, president of Southern Cotton  Growers, Inc; Dr. Kater Hake, Vice President of Agricultural and Environmental Research with Cotton Incorporated; Kevin Latner, executive director of Cotton Council International; and Mark Lange, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Cotton Council.

The meeting is held on the same day as the UGA Cotton Production Workshop which is co-sponsored by the Commission and the University of Georgia. The workshop sessions are conducted by the UGA Cotton Team Scientists. Producers will learn the latest in production strategies from the researchers whose projects were funded by the Commission using growers' dollars.

There is no charge to attend this educational event and the Commission hopes all cotton growers and any interested parties will join us.

The annual meeting and workshop agendas can be viewed on the Commission’s website: www.georgiacottoncommission.org.

Pre-registration is strongly encouraged, and appreciated. You may register by calling 1-229-386-3416.

The annual meeting sponsors are Aimtrac s Albany Tractor Company, Americot s AMVAC, BASF’s Bayer CropScience, BB Hobbs Company,  Cotton Growers Cooperative, Crop Production Services, DELTAPINE, DuPont Crop Protection, Lasseter Equipment Group, Phytogen Cottonseed, ProCot Cooperative, Southeast AgNet, Staplcotn, Syngenta, Triangle Chemical and Valent.

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