It’s been a tough year for peanuts – time for a little R&R!
Details have been finalized and registration is now officially underway for the 2009 Southern Peanut Growers Conference July 12-14 at the Edgewater Beach Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida.
You can register on-line here – or you can print out and fax in or mail this pdf registration form.
There will be plenty of time for rest and relaxation on the beautiful Emerald Coast, but the meeting does have its serious side as well. Business sessions will mix Peanuts and Politics, Production Issues and an Industry Update, as well as the Farm Press Peanut Profitability Award & Grower Panel. Check out the entire schedule in pdf form online here.
Sponsorship opportunities are still available for this 11th annual conference, which includes peanut producers and industry representatives from Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi – as well as most other peanut growing regions of the nation. Join with companies like Syngenta, Bayer CropScience, BASF, Valent, Trimble Agriculture/Ag Technologies, Farm Press, Farm Progress, Peanut Grower, Southeastern Peanut Farmer and more in helping to support this important meeting.
Thanks once again to Trimble Agriculture/Ag Technologies for their sponsorship of this conference blog where we will provide regular updates prior to the conference, as well as photos, audio interviews, video and more during the meeting itself. If you are a first time visitor to the SPGC blog, make sure you go backwards in time by scrolling down and checking out last year’s event coverage, especially the Flickr photo album.
Hope to see you in Panama City Beach July 12-14!
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The dates have been set for the 2009 Southern Peanut Growers Conference, once again at the fabulous Edgewater Beach Resort in Panama City.
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I finally got a chance to add Joy Carter’s photos to Flickr. I had a chance to see her again last week at the Ag Media Summit in Tampa where she gave me the CD with all her photos from the conference. I started a new album for them because there are over 300. She has lots of photos that I did not get – so be sure to check it out by clicking on the link below. 
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The kids really took to the dance floor at the Tuesday night blues bash concluding the 2008 Southern Peanut Growers Conference. Here are just a couple of the fun shots you can find in the Flickr 
Photos from the Flickr photo album can be downloaded onto your home computer in any size from thumbnail to full size originals. When you click on a photo you like and it comes up, just select “all sizes” from the menu above the photo. Right click to download the size you want. 
Syngenta is always proud to host the closing event at the Southern Peanut Growers Conference and this year’s 10th anniversary celebration was a special milestone for the company’s relationship with peanut growers in the south.
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The instructions were to wear a white shirt and black pants for the night of blues and the majority did follow those directions, although there were some individualists who came in Hawaiian shirts or nice dresses. But, everyone donned at least part of the costume to fit in with the theme.
There was much fun to be had at the Blues Brothers-themed finale for the Southern Peanut Growers Conference and everyone got in on the act. 
The Blues Brothers dinner and entertainment evening sponsored by Syngenta was a total success. Fun for everyone young and old. 
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