Agribusiness Development Network
Training/Tour
July 31 - August 4, 2006

Sponsors - UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences -
Cooperative Extension
Georgia Agribusiness Council
Georgia Department of Economic Development

Monday, July 31

9:30 am Meet at GA Farm Bureau Headquarters
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Macon
     
  Session I
9:45 - 12:15
Monday, July 31, 2006
Georgia Farm Bureau
     
9:45
Welcome
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Dr. John McKissick
Director, Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development
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    Wayne Dollar
President, GA Farm Bureau
10:00 Opening Comments Dr. Scott Angle
Dean and Director
College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences
UGA
10:15 “Team” Georgia Agribusiness Donnie Smith
Agricultural Liaison,
Governor’s Office
Chris Clark
Department of
Economic Development
Bernard Reynolds
Department of Community
Affairs
Tommy Irvin, Commissioner
Department of Agriculture
Dr. Beverly Sparks
Assistant Dean - Extension
CAES - UGA
11:30 Lunch  
 

Comments-Importance
Of Agribusiness Networking

Bryan Tolar
Georgia Agribusiness
Council
  Developing Agritourism David Lane
Lane Packing Company
Fort Valley, GA
12:45 Load Bus  
1:15 pm Travel to Lane Packing Company Ft. Valley
2:00 Tour Lane Packing Company Duke Lane
Lane Packing Company
3:30 Travel to Pettigrew Center Ft. Valley
     
  Session II
4:00 - 5:45
Monday, July 31, 2006
Pettigrew Center, FVSU
     
4:00 Developing Agritourism (cont.) Lindsey Hammock
Department of
Economic Development
Dr. Kent Wolfe
Center for Agribusiness and
Economic Development
Scott Cagle
Agri-Tour Solutions
Scott_Cagle_.pdf
  Resources for Agribusiness -
The Ag Innovation Center
Bill Boone Ag Innovation Center -Tifton
5:45 Adjourn  
5:45 Travel to Griffin  
7:30 Dinner - GTO's, Griffin
Sponsored by:
Georgia Department of
Economic Development
And
Charlie Gatlin,
Chief of Staff
Dept of Economic Development
  Griffin Spalding Development
Authority
David Luckie
Griffin-Spalding Development
Authority
9:00 Travel to Hotel  
9:30 Check in/On your own Griffin
 

Tuesday, August 1

7:00 am Luggage to Bus  
7:15 Breakfast Griffin
     
  Session III
8:30 - 11:45
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Stuckey Auditorium, Griffin Station
     
8:30 Developing Feasibility Studies
And Business Plans

Dr. John McKissick
Audrey Luke-Morgan
Sharon Kane
Dr. Archie Flanders

Center for Agribusiness and
Economic Development
John McKissick_.ppt
Audrey_Luke_Morgan_.ppt
Archie_Flanders_.ppt

10:00 Break  
10:15 Financing Entrepreneurship Merrill Folsom
AgSouth Farm Credit
Lindy Rogers
Spectrum Financial
Nancy Cobb
One Georgia Authority
Chris Scroggs
USDA
Craig_Scroggs.ppt
Merrill_Folsom_.ppt
Nancy_Cobb_.ppt
11:45 Lunch  
  Welcome Dr. Gerald Arkin
Assistant Dean, CAES
  Taking Advantage of Our Growth
eveloping Urban Markets -
The Farm Fresh Food Network

Laurie Moore,Coordinator
Farm Fresh Food Network
Media presentation
Full presentation - 13.2mb ppt, wmv
Farm Fresh ppt - 4.8mb
Farm Fresh video wmv - 986k
Farm Fresh video 2 wmv - 7.65mb
WMV video files play in windows media player

12:45 Tour Food Processing
Innovation Center
Dr. Dick Phillips
Food Processing Innovation
Center
2:30 Load Bus  
2:45 Travel to Ft. Gains  
5:45 Check in Motel - Bagby State Oark  
6:30 Load Bus  
6:45 Travel to Pine Ridge Hunting Lodge  
7:15 Dinner - Pine Ridge Hunting Lodge Fort Gaines
  The Story of Pine Ridge
Hunting Lodge
photo
Dan Giles
Pine Ridge Hunting Lodge
8:30 Travel to Motel - State Park Fort Gaines
9:00 On your own Fort Gaines
 

Wednesday, August 2

8:00 Luggage to Bus  
8:15 Breakfast - State Park Fort Gaines
  Session IV
9:00 - 10:30
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
George T. Bagby State Park, Fort Gaines Farm Bureau
9:00 Recognizing Agribusiness/
Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Will Harris
White Oak Farms
9:45 Business Orginizational Dr. Bill Thomas
  Structures Center for Agribusiness
And Economic Development
Craig Scroggs
USDA-Rural Development
Bill_Thomas Business_Structure.ppt
Bill_Thomas_Business_Structure.pdf
10:30 Load Bus  
10:45 Travel to Still pond
Vineyard and Winery
 
11:45 Tour - Still Pond
Vineyard and Windery
Susan and Charles Cowart
Still Pond Vineyard and Winery
  The Story of Still Pond
Vineyard and Winery
 
12:30 Lunch - Still Pond Vineyard
And Winery
 
1:15 Load Bus  
1:30 Travel to Glass Enterprises Camilla
2:30 Tour Glass Enterprises  
  How to Develop Entrepreneurship-
From Alligator Eggs to Guchi Bags

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Mark Glass
President, Glass Enterprises
4:15 Load Bus  
4:30 Travel to Tifton  
5:45 Check In Hotel  
7:30 Dinner Black Shank Farm - Tifton
9:00 Return to Hotel  
 

Thursday, August 3

7:15 Luggage to Bus  
7:30 Breakfast Tifton
8:15 Travel to Tifton Quality Peanuts  
8:45 Tour Tifton Quality Peanuts Irvin Branch, Chairman
    Board of Directors
Bill Peltzer
Public Relations and Quality
Control Director
10:15 Load Bus  
10:30 Travel to Tifton County Extension Office  
  Session V
11:00 - 12:30
Thursday, August 3, 2006
, Tift County Extension Office, Tifton
11:00 Agribusiness Marketing Strategies
and Trends
Dr. Kent Wolfe
UGA - CAED
11:25 Developing an Industry Economic
Development Project - The “Ga. Milk”
Example
Dr. Tommie Shepherd
UGA - CAED
Tommie_Shepherd.ppt
11:45 Developing an Industry Economic
Development Project - The "Ga. Milk"
Development
Sidney Law
CEC, Washington County
Brian Tankersley
CEC Tift County
Bob Reinhardt
Tift County Development
Authority
12:30 Lunch Tift County Extension Office
  Welcome Julie Hunt
University System Regent
  Comments Ben Tarbutton
University System Regent
1:30 Load Bus  
1:45 Travel to Bell Plantation Peanuts Fitzgerald
2:45 Tour Bell Plantation Peanuts J. C. Bell
Bell Plantation Peanuts
3:45 Load Bus  
4:00 Travel to Vidalia photo  
5:30 Tour Manning/Vidalia
Valley Farms
Vince StanleyManager, Manning Farms
6:30 Load Bus  
6:45 Travel to Lyons  
7:00 Dinner  
  The Story of Stanley Farms R. T. Stanley
President, Stanley Farms
8:30 Check In/On your own  
 

Friday, August 4

7:15 Load Bus Vidalia
7:30 Breakfast Vidalia
8:15 Travel to Oconee River Produce Mt. Vernon
8:45 The Oconee River Produce Story
And Tour
Rick Berry
Oconee River Produce
9:45 Load Bus  
10:00 Travel to Captain's Corner Resturant Vidalia
  Session VI
10:30 - 12:30
Friday, August 4, 2006
Captain's Corner Resturant, Vidalia
10:30 Farm Fresh Tattnall Reid Torrance
CEC, Tattnall County
11:00 Break into Agency Groups  
 

Extension Breakout Seccion

11:00 Expectations of Network Agents Beverly Sparks
Interim Associate Dean -
Extension
 

Department of Economic Development
Breakout Session

11:00   Brian Marlowe
Department of Economic
Development
12:00 Groups reconvene  
  Closing Comments Dr. Scott Angle
Dean, College of Agricultural
Envorinmental Sciences
12:30 Lunch  
1:15 Load Bus  
1:30 Travel to Macon  
4:00 Homeward bound