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Month: April 2025

Investing in Rural America Through Integrative Precision Agriculture

traceyv on April 29, 2025

Meet George Vellidis, director of the University of Georgia’s Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture. UGA launched the institute in 2022 to leverage interdisciplinary faculty expertise and industry ties to advance this field. “As researchers, it’s easy for us to work as individuals to solve a particular task,” said Vellidis. “But when we work together to look at problems from different perspectives, we come up with optimal solutions for even bigger challenges.”

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Calibrating Insecticide Hoppers on Planters

slquinlan on April 28, 2025

By: Will Brown (UGA Extension, Appling County), Jennifer Miller (UGA Extension, Jeff Davis County), Sarah Beth Thompson, and Wesley Porter  While planting is going full speed there are many planters that have insecticide hoppers on the back of the row units, and it is critical that these systems are calibrated. Depending on which crop you […]
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Deep Learning Systems for Automatic Egg Grading

slquinlan on April 27, 2025

Defective eggs (eggs with abnormal exterior quality and size, Figure 1) can reduce the egg quality/food safety and market value of laying hen production, especially in cage-free houses where floor eggs are more common. To improve egg quality, automated grading and defect detection systems have been developed using machine vision and image processing. Automated egg […]
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WenZhan Song Receives Lamar Dodd Research Award

traceyv on April 22, 2025

IIPA member, WenZhan Song is a 2025 recipient of the Lamar Dodd Research Creative Research Award.

This award is given to recognize an outstanding body of nationally and internationally recognized scholarly or creative activities in the sciences. Lamar Dodd’s artwork extended into the American West and even into space when he was commissioned by NASA and the Department of the Interior to creatively record numerous scientific achievements. His scientific artwork joined imagination and scientific reality. For this reason, the Lamar Dodd Award was established in 1981 in his honor.

 

Switching from Corn to Peanut Planting-Planter Components 

slquinlan on April 22, 2025

By Marco Torresan and Wesley Porter  Even though it’s still early in the season, most of the corn has been planted and many producers are switching over and starting to plant peanuts. I have seen many farmers starting to plant peanuts, so hopefully they have already made these changes. As you finish up corn it […]
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