2002 CSREES & UGA Reviews

1. 2002CSREES & UGA Reviews Department of Horticulture University of Georgia

2. Welcome!

3. Georgia Horticulture • Dynamic & diversified: • First in: pecans, collard greens, turnip greens, and lima beans • Second in: mustard greens • Third in: onions, watermelons, peaches, squash, cucumbers, eggplant, and kale • Fourth in: fresh vegetable production (combined), sweet corn, snap beans, and okra

4. Georgia Horticulture • Increasing in importance

5. Georgia Horticulture • Increasing in importance

6. Georgia Horticulture • Increasing in importance

7. UGA Horticulture • A premier department • Established programs • International reputations • Promising future • Significant challenges to address

8. Spatial Separation • Three campuses • Six off-campus faculty • Three positions out of state • One position frozen • Research projects at six outlying locations

9. Staff Support • Office Support (13.55 EFT) • 6 housed in Athens • 0.5 in Byron • 2.75 in Griffin • 0.3 in Statesboro (funded outside department) • 4 in Tifton

10. Staff Support • Technical Research Support (29.5 EFTs) • 7.5 in Athens • 1 in Byron • 7 in Griffin • 14 in Tifton • Technical Extension Support • 1 in Griffin

11. Staff Support • Greenhouse Support • 2 in Athens (teaching / research) • 1 in Griffin (research) • Field Research Support • 1 in Alapaha (funded outside the department) • 2 in Watkinsville (Durham Horticulture Farm)

12. Faculty by Function 40.5 EFT's 37.76 EFT's

13. Faculty by Rank

14. Faculty by Commodity Area

15. Faculty by Location

16. Challenges • Reduced budget • Short term losses hurt graduate program and operations • We will get smaller as a College • Expanding industries with increased needs • Vegetable industry • Wine grape industry • Horticulture in general • Green industry -- graduates

17. Challenges • Urbanization challenges • Meshing production sector with consumer sector • I am a minority in my own state… • Opportunity to maintain "relevance" of agriculture