Please join us for Field Day 2024 at the Pee Dee REC!

You will spend the morning learning about the research conducted at the center while being toured around the station. You will also have the opportunity to meet our faculty and ask questions regarding their research!

Topics this year include: 

• Reducing Cotton Inputs by Using Perennial Cover Crops - Dr. Eric Billman
• Updates on Breeding for: Reduced Immunogenicity in Wheat and Peanuts & Reduced Regrowth and Cluster Flowering in Upland Cotton - Dr. Sachin Rustgi
• Sesame: An Alternative Summer Crop in SC - Dr. Wonkeun Park 
• Cotton Agronomy Research: Microbial Product and Simulated Deer-feeding Studies - Dr. Mike Jones
• Quantifying Soil Health Response to Conservation Management - Dr. Rongzhong Ye
• Measuring the Impacts of Sorghum on Farm Profitability and Soil Health when Incorporated into a Dryland Cropping Rotation - Dr. Rick Boyles
• Identification and Management of Insects in Cotton and Soybean - Dr. Jeremy Greene
• Updates on Forage-Livestock Systems Research at Clemson University - Dr. Liliane Severino da Silva
• On-Farm Assessment of Broiler Litter Use in Corn - Dr. Bhupinder Farmaha
• Row Crop Economics and Policy Update - Dr. Nathan Smith
• The Cotton Regional Breeders Testing Network - Dr. Todd Campbell
• Adding Pollinator Habitat into the Farm Management Plan - Ben Powell
   

Field Day is geared towards growers, producers, and agricultural researchers in South Carolina. However, the general public is also welcome to attend. Registration begins at 7:30 am. 

This is an outdoor event, rain or shine. Please plan accordingly (light clothing, comfortable shoes, sunscreen, bug sprays, etc.)

Admission is free and lunch will be provided. 
 

If using a GPS to navigate to the REC, please enter: 2200 Pocket Road, Darlington, SC 29532

SC Recertification Credits offered this year: 1