TIFTON, Georgia– For the fifth year in a row AMADAS Industries sponsors the grand door prize during the 29th annual Georgia Peanut Farm Show and Conference. The grand door prize is a certificate valued at $5,000 for the purchase of an AMADAS peanut combine. The one-day show on January 20, 2005, offers farmers a full day to view the products and services of more than 60 exhibitors and an afternoon of education.

“ This is the fifth year AMADAS Industries has sponsored the grand door prize,” says Emory Murphy, farm show coordinator. “We are excited that they have chosen to recognize one lucky peanut farmer with a $5,000 certificate towards the purchase of a peanut combine.”

The show opens at 8:30 a.m. with door prize registration and closes at 3:45 p.m. with the announcement of the grand door prize winner. During the opening general session at 10:45 a.m., the Georgia Peanut Commission will present awards and Bill Brown of J.M. Smucker Company will bring the keynote address.

Brown is currently the peanut procurement manager for the J.M.Smucker Company and is responsible for the quality, logistics, and purchasing of peanuts used in Smucker’s two peanut butter making facilities: one located in Lexington, Ky., and the other in New Bethlehem, Pa. He is a member of the American Peanut Council Board of Directors, an associate member of the American Peanut Shellers Association and was recently appointed as a member of the USDA’s Peanut Standards Board.

The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service will present educational peanut seminars throughout the day focusing on weeds, agronomics, insects, diseases and economics. Growers who participate in the extension-research seminars will earn credit towards pesticide certification.

At the close of the day, the presentation of a $5,000 certificate towards the purchase of an AMADAS peanut combine, donated by AMADAS Industries, will be presented to one lucky peanut grower.

For more information on the farm show contact the commission at 229-386-3470 or via email at info@gapeanuts.com. Information is also available by clicking here.