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The University of Georgia
Cooperative Extension
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences 

"2009
Georgia-Florida Tobacco Tour"

Invitation and General Schedule

Registration Form

June 8 - June 10, 2009

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2009 Final Tour Schedule
(available nearer the Tour dates)

2009 Tour Directions
(available nearer the Tour dates)


Invitation and General Schedule


2009 Georgia-Florida Tobacco Tour

You and your co-workers are invited to attend the "2009 Georgia - Florida Tobacco Tour". The tour will begin with a Kick-Off Supper at Mixon's pond house in Waresboro, Georgia on Monday, June 11, and end with dinner near Lake City, Florida on Wednesday, June 8, 2009.

JUNE 8, 2009

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Holiday Inn in Waycross (PH: 912 283 4490). Identify yourself as part of the "Tobacco Tour" for Special Rates. Other hotels are available in the area.

The tour will begin with a Kick-Off Supper at Mixon's pond house in Waresboro, Georgia on Monday, June 8, 2009. Supper will be served at 7:00 p.m.

JUNE 9, 2009

Tuesday morning, the tour will leave from the Holiday Inn parking lot at 7:30 a.m. to visit several Georgia tobacco farms, on-farm demonstrations (varieties, TSWV) and producers. Lunch will be in Georgia. After noon we will visit several additional on-farm demonstration sites (TSWV, strip-till tobacco) in Georgia and end in Tifton, GA for the evening.

Tuesday evening, the Georgia Tobacco Tour, headquarters will be the Holiday Inn in Tifton, GA (PH: 229 382 6687) located off Exit 62 on I-75 and GA Hwy 82. Identify yourself as part of the "Tobacco Tour" for Special Rates.
Complimentary breakfast is included with the room. Other hotels are available in the area. Directions for Supper will be available at check-in.

JUNE 10, 2009

Wednesday morning, the tour will leave the Holiday Inn at 7:30 a.m. and visit the Bowen Farm of the Coastal Plain Experiment Station on the University of Georgia Tifton Campus and have lunch at the Tifton Campus Conference Center in Tifton, GA.

After lunch we will visit additional on-farm demonstrations (TSWV, Regional Variety Farm Test) in Berrien and Lanier Counties in Georgia, Florida tobacco producers and a Released Varieties Demonstration in Columbia County, Florida. The tour will end near Lake City, F
lorida. No meal is planned and no hotel has been desinated.

Send Questions to: J. Michael Moore at
jmmoore@uga.edu

or by FAX: 229-386-7308

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The information provided below will allow us to better prepare
for your participation in the 2009 Georgia - Florida Toba
cco Tour.


Georgia-Florida Tour Kick-Off Supper
(Monday, June 8, 2009)


Yes No   Kick-Off Supper

First Day of Tour
(Tuesday, June 9, 2009)


Yes No   AM Farm visits

Yes No   Lunch in Georgia

Yes No   PM On-Farm Demonstrations

Yes No   Supper
in Tifton

Second Day of Tour
(Wednesday, June 10, 2009)


Yes No   AM UGA Coastal Plain Experiment Station

Yes No    Lunch
in Tifton

Yes No   PM On-Farm Demonstrations

Yes No   End of Georgia-Florida Tour near Lake City, Florida (no meal scheduled)

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