The Georgia Agricultural Experiment Stations
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
The University of Georgia
Research Report Number 686
January 2003
2002 Peanut, Cotton, and Tobacco Performance Tests
J. LaDon Day, Anton E. Coy, Stevan S. LaHue,
Larry G. Thompson, Paul A. Rose, and John P. Beasley
Editors
J. LaDon Day is program coordinator of the state variety testing program and Paul A. Rose is agricultural coordinator II in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Georgia Station, Griffin, GA 30223-1797. Anton E. Coy, Stevan S. LaHue, and Larry G. Thompson are senior agricultural specialist, agricultural research coordinator I, and agricultural research coordinator I, respectively, in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Tifton, GA 31793-0748. John P. Beasley is professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences-Cooperative Extension Service, Rural Development Center, Tifton, GA 31793-1209.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Cooperators and Contributors
The Season with 2002 Rainfall
PEANUT
Tifton, Georgia: Plains, Georgia: Midville, Georgia: COTTON Earlier Maturity Cotton Variety Performance Later Maturity Cotton Variety Performance Earlier Maturity Cotton Strains Performance Later Maturity Cotton Strains Performance Dryland Earlier Maturity Cotton Variety Performance Dryland Later Maturity Cotton Variety Performance TOBACCO Tifton, Georgia:
Agronomic, and Chemical Characteristics of Released Varieties, 2002
Comparison of Released Varieties for Certain Characteristics, 2000-2002