J. Phil Campbell Sr. Research and Education Center

Eric Elsner Superintendent

eelsner@uga.edu 706-542-7236

J. Phil Campbell Sr. Research and Education Center

1420 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville, Georgia 30677

Our Work and Priorities

The center's staff maintains a herd of 200 Angus and Angus-based brood cows and currently supports research in many areas including forage production and utilization by beef cattle, alfalfa breeding and production, fescue breeding, clover breeding, corn production strategies, and cotton variety trials. The area's climate and soils are suited for most of the commodities grown in the southern piedmont region.

In addition to the center's main priority of CAES research, its proximity to campus makes an ideal location for teaching and extension functions as well. JPCREC houses the Oconee County Cooperative Extension office as well as the North Region Agricultural Education offices.

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Featured Research

Martian regolith and bedrock simulants

UGA Geology Ph.D. Student, Laura Fackrell, is first author on a publication summarizing the mineralogy of Mars surface materials and detailing the development of Mars soil and surface material simulants for agricultural studies. The photo shows one of the plants growing in her artifical light "green house" located at the UGA J. Phil Campbell Sr. Research and Education Center.

We investigate the latest production and technological practices, striving for producer profitability and sustainability.

Research and Education Centers (RECs) are hubs for innovation and discovery that address the most critical issues facing agricultural production throughout the state. Ultimately, our findings are shared with stakeholders through the extension and outreach efforts of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

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UGA wheat breeder and geneticist Mohamed Mergoum smells one of several test brews created by Creature Comforts on its annual Get Comfortable collaboration using a variety of wheat Mergoum developed at CAES.

CAES News

Creature Comforts partners with UGA wheat breeder to create 2024 Get Comfortable brew 04/09/24

Wheat breeders spend years meticulously crossing varieties to coax the best traits out of each species, carefully propagating plant varieties that are healthier, heartier and better suited for the environments where they are grown. Brewmasters are equally painstaking when choosing the components that will give their beers a specific flavor profile. These two exacting professions came together this spring when Athens-based Creature Comforts Brewing Co. reached out to the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to find a sustainable wheat variety they could use to make a good beer for a great cause.

CAES News

UGA Extension protects family farms and sensitive species 04/04/24

Stanley Culpepper has dedicated the length of his career to supporting farmers in their mission to feed and clothe the world. For the past 25 years, Culpepper has been a weed science specialist for University of Georgia Cooperative Extension and a College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences faculty member. Recently his job has become increasingly complex as mounting challenges around the availability of pesticides — primarily herbicides — have taken center stage in agricultural production.

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CAES Events

The University of Georgia - SWD District

Apr 21

8:00AM - 5:00PM SW District - 4-H Social

This 2.5-day program combines a unique level of lectures and work group discussions from a broad based faculty of meat and poultry scientists, HACCP experts and authorities from academia. Interspersed between the lectures are hands-on break-out groups and exercises geared to the meat industry to give the attendee a more in-depth knowledge of developing and monitoring a HACCP food safety plan, sanitation, etc. The course will take place on April 23-25, 2024, and the cost is $600.

Apr 23

04/23 8:30AM - 04/25 12:00PM Meat and Poultry HACCP Food Science, ATHENS, GA

Wednesday, April 24 3:00pm - 3:30pm Evaluating the impact of mechanical harvesting on the postharvest quality of short-day onions (Allium cepa) Taiwo Owolanke, PhD Research Proposal SeminarAdvisors, A. Deltsidis. Presenting from Tifton campus_____________________________3:30pm - 4:00pmCatharanthus roseus hydroponic production and alkaloid elicitation Matt Housely, MS Research ProposalAdvisors, R. Ferrarezi. Presenting from Athens campus

Apr 24

3:00PM - 3:30PM Evaluating the impact of mechanical harvesting on the postharvest quality of short-day onions (Allium cepa), Taiwo Owolanke, PhD research proposal Miller Plant Science, ATHENS, GA

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Agricultural advancement for northeast Georgia