Project or Activity Designation and
Number: SERA-IEG-6
Project or Activity Title: Nutrient Analysis of Soils, Plants, Water, and Waste
Materials
Period Covered: June 6, 2007- June 25, 2008
Annual Meeting Dates: Annual meeting held jointly with NEC-17 and NCRA-13,
University of Tennessee, Nashville, TN, June 22-25, 2008
Participants: A list of SERA-IEG-6 members and participants in the 2007
meeting along with a record of the minutes from this meeting can be found at
the following URL: http://www.clemson.edu/agsrvlb/sera6
- click on Participants. Address for the list-server is sera-ieg-6-L@clemson.edu.
Project or Activity Leadership: Activity Leadership:
Chair Hailin Zhang, haz@mail.pss.okstate.edu
Chair-elect Rao
Mylavarapo, raom@ufl.edu
Secretary Frank Sikora, fsikora@uky.edu
Past Chair Hubert J. Savoy, hsavoy@utk.edu
Research Administrative Advisor Mark Hussey, mhussey@tamu.edu
Extension Administrative Advisor
David Kissel, dkissel@arches.uga.edu
Brief summary of minutes of annual
meeting: Please
refer to 2008 meeting minutes at the following URL: www.clemson.edu/agsrvlb/sera6
The 2008 annual meeting was hosted
by University of Tennessee. Dr. John Wilkerson (Interim Dean for
Agricultural Research) welcomed the group to Nashville.
Texas A&M University agreed to
host the 2009 meeting in Texas. The
meeting will be held June 22-24, 2009.
David Hardy was nominated and
elected to the position of secretary.
Frank Sikora served his last year as
SERA6 representative on the NAPT board (serving two 3 year terms). Tony Provin was nominated and elected to
serve on the board representing SERA6 for a 3 year term.
Accomplishments and Impacts: The work-group continues to be a forum for interaction of
members concerning soil, plant, waste, and water analysis testing and
appropriate recommendations given to agricultural producers and others as a
result of such testing. Standardization
and cooperative activities are encouraged whenever possible within the region.
This strengthens national efforts to effectively and efficiently utilize our
lime and fertilizer resources while protecting the environment and improving
water quality by providing opportunities, if taken, for combining manpower and
physical resources within the region wherever appropriate.
A fact
sheet on the Adams-Evans buffer replacement (Moore and Sikora) has been
completed and is on the web site.
A white
paper was prepared on the value of public agricultural soil testing
laboratories and is available on the web site.
Cooperative Research
Projects/Bulletins:
Larry
Oldham agreed to chair a subcommittee to develop an outline on how best to move
forward to coordinate activities on calibration/correlation for biomass crops.
Tony
Provin agreed to send out an email soliciting interest in nutrient management
for specialty crops.
New Publications:
Debbie Joines
will continue efforts to develop a fact sheet on Copper deficiency in animals
as influenced by soil fertility.
Hugh Savoy indicated he still has not
received an ISBN number for the Southern Coop Series 190 revision.
Frank Sikora proposed the work on
the ICP vs colorimetric-P be developed into a
research publication.
Charlie Mitchell presented progress
on the regional cotton publication.
Prepared and submitted by: Frank Sikora
Date Submitted: 2/26/09