The University of Georgia and Fort Valley State University are currently working under a joint plan of work. This plan was submitted and approved in accordance to the Agriculture, Research, Extension and Education Reform Act. For detailed information about this process visit the CSREES website about AREERA. This plan is known as the Georgia Extension & Research Federal Plan of Work. This plan of work is divided into five major goals. Each goal contains numerous performance goals. We must report our efforts toward these goals on an annual basis. The plan contains a total of 81 performance goals. To make the list of goals more manageable, we have organized them on this site according to the institution that agreed to support them in the original plan.
Please review these performance goals. Anyone can report against any goal. However, we would encourage you to start with the performance goals associated with your appointment. Report your efforts toward all the appropriate performance goals. A reporting form is located at the END of each performance goal. You will be able to view a summary of your report after submitting it to the database. Please print the summary page for your records.
Please be aware that it is important to report effort or activities accomplished. However, it is even more important to articulate impact. Every data field in the report must have an entry. Enter "none" or "n/a" if you have no information for a field, do not leave blank.
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For UGA faculty: If you submitted an impact statement that would support one
of these goals, you may reference the impact statement report by name instead
of retyping it here. To reference an impact statement, enter the title in the
Issue Statement field. Enter n/a in all other boxes except for Collaboration.
In the Collaboration field you always need to identify projects that are multi-state,
multi-institutional, multidisciplinary, or joint research/extension efforts.
This is critical to our federal reporting and is not always evident within an
impact statement. Also select the appropriate key words. Multiple impact statements
should not be referenced on the same form unless they are similar in topic.
If you think a goal needs to be discontinued, if you feel something is missing, or if you have any questions about this process or the reporting forms, please contact Greg Price at gprice@uga.edu or 706-542-1098
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Current Year Report Forms are located at the END of each Goal |
GOAL 1 |
AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM THAT IS HIGHLY COMPETITIVE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY |
| Goal 1-1 | To increase the quantity and quality of value-added products produced by farmers for local or regional markets. |
| Goal 1-2 | To increase the efficiency of GA agricultural production, agribusiness and natural resource management. |
| Goal 1-4 | To enhance the competitiveness of Georgia's agricultural products. |
| Goal 1-6 | To have Georgia poultry producers remain competitive by utilizing best management programs to minimize energy usage while achieving maximum bird performance. |
| Goal 1-7 | To improve breeder flock performances and hatchery operations. |
| Goal 1-8 | To increase the quality of feed ingredients used by poultry producers for maximum efficiency and least cost. |
GOAL 2 |
A SAFE AND SECURE FOOD AND FIBER SYSTEM |
| Goal 2-1 | To minimize the risk of food-borne illness, through adoption of recommended food handling and preservation practices. |
| Goal 2-2 | To increase consumer understanding of agriculture and aquaculture practices that are necessary to consistently produce an abundant, safe, and inexpensive food supply. |
| Goal 2-3 | To ensure full participation in the reassessment of the pesticide regulatory system as mandated by the Food Quality Protection Act. |
| Goal 2-4 | Develop a systems approach that combines extension, teaching, and research to enhance food handling, processing, value-added technologies, marketing, and distribution at the state, national, and international levels to ensure Georgia's place in the increasingly global food economy. |
| Goal 2-5 | To have all poultry processing plants producing the safest, highest quality product possible with the current available technology and quality control programs. |
| Goal 2-6 | To have all poultry producers and processing plants producing the safest, highest quality product possible using currently available technology and best management programs. |
| Goal 2-11 | To educate and protect the agricultural industry of Georgia from catastrophic agrosecurity or natural disaster events. |
GOAL 3 |
A HEALTHY, MORE WELL-NOURISHED POPULATION |
| Goal 3-1 | Georgians will become aware of their risk factors for chronic disease and change their eating and exercise habits to decrease those risks. Georgians with diabetes who attend Extension-sponsored education programs will use food products and recipes lower in fat, sugar, and/or sodium in order to improve their blood glucose and blood pressure levels. Women who participate in the Teenage Mothers Nutrition Program (TAMS) will gain weight within the recommended range during their pregnancy. |
GOAL 4 |
GREATER HARMONY BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
| Goal 4-1 | To have an agricultural sector that manages its waste in an environmentally sound manner, utilizes production by-products to the greatest extent possible and practical, and provides society with sustainable waste management options. |
| Goal 4-2 | To provide the research, instruction, and extension activities necessary to ensure that Georgia citizens protect, conserve, and utilize surface and groundwater resources in a sustainable manner. |
| Goal 4-6 | To have all poultry producers in Georgia implement nutrient management plans. |
GOAL 5 |
ENHANCED ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR AMERICANS |
| Goal 5-1 | To annually improve the financial status of families through financial management education programs implemented in which CSREES partners and cooperators play an active research, education, or extension role. |
| Goal 5-4 | Develop, provide and expand effective child caregiving. |
| Goal 5-5 | Develop citizenship skills. |
| Goal 5-6 | Develop skills in communication, arts and leisure. |
| Goal 5-7 | Develop coping and life skills among children, youth and families at risk. |
| Goal 5-8 | To build the leadership capacity of individuals, groups and organizations to make decisions and take action for the public well-being. |
| Goal 5-12 | Improve quality of life of families by building their capacity to acquire and maintain their housing, reduce exposure to environmental contaminants in the home, and manage their demands on natural resources. |
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Current Year Report Forms are located at the END of each Goal |
GOAL 1 |
AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM THAT IS HIGHLY COMPETITIVE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY |
| Goal 1-3 | Develop and evaluate meat and milk products; fruits and vegetables; agronomic and forestry products that protect soil resources, improve environmental quality and enhance biological diversity through emerging plant and animal systems. |
| Goal 1-5 | To improve management practices of small and part-time farmers. |
| Goal 1-41 | Develop and evaluate aquaculture species, production methods and systems through demonstration recirculating systems and provide aquaculture educational opportunities and training with the use demonstration facilities and different cultured species. |
GOAL 2 |
A SAFE AND SECURE FOOD AND FIBER SYSTEM |
| Goal 2-1 | To minimize the risk of food-borne illness, through adoption of recommended food handling and preservation practices. |
| Goal 2-2 | To increase consumer understanding of agriculture and aquaculture practices that are necessary to consistently produce an abundant, safe, and inexpensive food supply. |
| Goal 2-4 | Develop a systems approach that combines extension, teaching, and research to enhance food handling, processing, value-added technologies, marketing, and distribution at the state, national, and international levels to ensure Georgia's place in the increasingly global food economy. |
GOAL 3 |
A HEALTHY, MORE WELL-NOURISHED POPULATION |
| Goal 3-2 | To reduce the risk of chronic diseases (hypertension, cancer, diabetes, and obesity) and to maintain optimum health for all ages, families and individuals will use the appropriate dietary guidelines to choose a healthy diet and integrate physical activity into daily life. |
GOAL 4 |
GREATER HARMONY BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
| Goal 4-3 | Conduct research, establish demonstrations, and provide educational programs in sustainable agriculture that will enable Georgia’s small and limited resource farmers to increase productivity while reducing the physical limitations of their farms; enhance soil quality through the application of organic matter; and compare the performance of a bio-terrace system to a conventional terrace system |
| Goal 4-4 | Demonstrate both intermediate and long-term benefits of double dug raised beds as a superior method of managing and improving soil physical qualities, biological activity and fertility; utilize organic fertilizers, cover crops, mulching, organic pest controls, and drip irrigation to determine the best practices for crop management; and grow various types and varieties of vegetables, small fruits, and tree fruits to determine which are best suited to organic culture as well as to climate and soil conditions for east central Georgia. |
| Goal 4-5 | Determine the critical inputs and management and components for raising grazing livestock and trees on the same piece of land; establish a demonstration unit showing how small ruminants can complement the production of timber and/or nuts and fruits from trees; and study and demonstrate the outcome of efforts to apply biological control to plant pests in tree plantations as a substitute for some or all application of chemical herbicides. |
GOAL 5 |
ENHANCED ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR AMERICANS |
| Goal 5-1A | To annually improve the economic stability and financial status and security of individuals and families through resource management educational programs and activities in collaboration with Extension partners and stakeholders. |
| Goal 5-2 | To annually improve the economic stability and financial status and security of low income/limited resource individuals and families through resource management education programs and activities in collaboration with Extension partners and stakeholders. |
| Goal 5-3 |
To provide the educational resources to enable older Georgians to make informed decisions about lifestyles. |
| Goal 5-7 | Develop coping and life skills among children, youth and families at risk |
| Goal 5-8 | To build the leadership capacity of individuals, groups and organizations to make decisions and take action for the public well-being. To annually increase the research and knowledge base available from CSREES Partners and Cooperators on the economic well-being of communities and their citizens. |
| Goal 5-13 | To provide technical assistance to local governments to help them work with the issues affecting the development of workforce housing and identify suitable educational and financial resources. |
| Goal 5-14 | To provide the educational resources to enable low to moderate income individuals to make informed decisions about home ownership. |
| Goal 5-15 | To develop an informational network linking Georgia's housing providers to allow individuals to learn about their programs and services. |
| Goal 5-16 | To annually educate community and economic development practitioners of Georgia's rural housing needs and provide them with the informational resources needed to address these impediments. |
| Goal 5-17 | To implement a Mortgage Workplace Program to assist Fort Valley State University family with down payment and closing costs associated with home ownership. |
| Goal 5-18 | To provide youth a variety of self marketing skills that will enable them to engage future social and economical challenges. |
| Goal 5-19 | To enhance decision making skills, develop positive leadership characteristics, prevent teen pregnancies and encourage development of positive self esteem |
| Goal 5-20 | To provide youth with science educational resources that will enhance their knowledge of the benefits of science. |
| Goal 5-21 | To provide educational programming to strengthen the family unit by informing parents, caregivers and professionals with the most up-to-date and research based concepts of positive development, family coping strategies and basic life skills. The positive developments will provide children the self confidence to become caring and responsible adults for a thriving community. |
| Goal 5-22 | To provide teens educational information on making informed decisions on sexuality, sexual behavior and pregnancy. |
| Goal 5-23 | To annually improve the decision making skill of limited resource families through consumer education programs implemented to help those families make wise consumer clothing/textiles decisions. |
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Current Year Report Forms are located at the END of each Goal |
GOAL 1 |
AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM THAT IS HIGHLY COMPETITIVE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY |
| Goal 1-9 | Enhance the competitiveness of Georgia’s agricultural and forestry products in domestic and international markets by developing value-added products and processes and facilitating the transfer of these technologies from research to the marketplace to increase profitability, employment, and rural development. |
| Goal 1-10 | Meet the growing consumer demand for wood-based products through improved systems of forest management and harvesting that provide for protection of natural resources and sustained environmental quality. |
| Goal 1-11 | Enhance specific genetic traits and germplasm resources through traditional breeding and transgenic research to improve crop resistance to pests and other environmental stresses, to increase plant performance, to provide public and private breeding programs a greater array of germplasm for cultivar development, and to ensure increased profitability for Georgia growers. |
| Goal 1-12 | Develop plant management strategies that improve the efficiency of crop production, minimize production risks, and ensure the sustainability of natural resources. |
| Goal 1-13 | Improve animal performance, composition, and products through the use of molecular genetics and biotechnology; optimize animal production by identifying and using genetic regulation of key behavioral, physiological, and regulatory processes; and, maintain genetic diversity in animal germplasm resources. |
| Goal 1-14 | Develop comprehensive production management systems for poultry, cattle, swine, and fish with improved nutrient utilization, reproductive performance, and quality composition of food animals and products that optimizes a balance between profitability and environmental sustainability. |
| Goal 1-15 | Enhance animal production by improving animal health and well-being in the production environment. |
| Goal 1-16 | Develop enhanced pest management systems that are efficacious, environmentally compatible, and economically rewarding for Georgia producers |
| Goal 1-17 | Develop improved machines, processes, diagnostic devices, and decision support tools to enhance production, economic value, and profitability of Georgia’s agricultural products. |
| Goal 1-18 | Enhance the efficiency, profitability and competitiveness of agricultural enterprises by reducing risks, selecting profitable investments and enterprises, adopting improved or alternative production and management techniques, selecting appropriate marketing strategies, and identifying economic development opportunities for rural communities. |
GOAL 2 |
A SAFE AND SECURE FOOD AND FIBER SYSTEM |
| Goal 2-7 | Enhance the safety and quality of foods through continued innovations in detecting and preventing microbiological and parasitological hazards and in adding value throughout the pre-harvest, post harvest, and processing segments of the food continuum. |
| Goal 2-8 | Develop, transfer, and promote the adoption of safe and efficient food processing technologies and systems that improve consumer access to affordable, convenient, and good-tasting foods while ensuring food safety and quality maintenance in processing systems. |
GOAL 3 |
A HEALTHY, MORE WELL-NOURISHED POPULATION |
| Goal 3-3 | To increase the research and knowledge base available in human nutrition, primarily in the areas of obesity, bone health, nutrition and age-related hearing loss, bone health, and cancer. |
GOAL 4 |
GREATER HARMONY BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
| Goal 4-7 | Protect and enhance soil, water, and air quality in the context of agricultural and forestry operations. |
| Goal 4-8 |
Maintain and enhance the biological integrity of natural and managed ecosystems to foster agricultural and forestry production. |
| Goal 4-9 | Improve the quality of surface and ground water for multiple uses for agriculture, wildlife, industry, and humans and to increase economic benefits derived from societal uses of watershed areas and water resources. |
| Goal 4-10 | Improve production and marketing of agricultural and forestry products through a greater understanding of weather and climate and their impacts on and interactions with agricultural and forestry production. |
| Goal 4-11 | Develop economically and ecologically viable methods of managing, converting and using animal, plant, and human wastes as a resource that can be recycled through agricultural and forestry production systems with no environmental risk to communities. |
| Goal 4-12 | Increase and improve databases of risk management decision tools addressing economic environmental quality. |
GOAL 5 |
ENHANCED ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR AMERICANS |
| Goal 5-9 | Identify and enhance opportunities for economic revival and development of rural Georgia communities. |
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Current Year Report Forms are located at the END of each Goal |
GOAL 1 |
AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM THAT IS HIGHLY COMPETITIVE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY |
| Goal 1-19 | Conduct research on Georgia and US producers, and products, competitiveness; perceptions of product safety, availability and price competitiveness; and perceptions of desired structural attributes of US agriculture. |
| Goal 1-20 |
1. Identify segments of the market that demand small ruminant products. 2. Determine the type of product demanded by the segmented market. 3. Study the efficiency of various marketing channels for producers and consumers. 4. Improve the alignment between supply and demand for small ruminant products. 5. Assess and increase the availability of a competitively priced and safe product. 6. Enhance knowledge of producer perceptions of major impediments to production |
| Goal 1-21 |
1. Define nutritional requirements for various physiological processes of goats. 2. Develop year-round grazing systems for goats with appropriate combinations of forages. 3. Minimize goat parasite burdens through a combination of biological and chemical controls. 4. Define chemical composition of goat milk and chevon from different classes of goats. 5. Develop and evaluate acceptability of value-added chevon and goat milk products. |
| Goal 1-22 |
1. Improve reproductive efficiency by controlling the neuroendocrine system. 2. Develop and refine techniques of increasing sheep and goat products. |
| Goal 1-23 |
1. Develop technology to improve reproductive efficiency. 2. Produce transgenic small ruminants to enhance product quality and quantity. 3. Increase value-added products to enhance farmers’ competitiveness. 4. Develop methods to secure and preserve germplasm. |
| Goal 1-24 |
1. Evaluate photoperiodic effects on goat reproduction. 2. Develop, refine, and apply molecular protocols to improve reproductive efficiency in goats. 3. Develop techniques and procedures to preserve genetic material of both genders. 4. Implement year-round breeding system utilizing preserved materials. |
| Goal 1-25 |
1. Improve herd health management requirements for goats. 2. Develop herd vaccination and disease prevention protocols for goats. 3. Procure disease surveillance data, perform disease investigation, and compile results. 4. Minimize production loss through herd health recommendations. |
| Goal 1-26 |
1. Determine progeny differences to confirm heritability values of potential half-sibs. 2. Study performance of various breeds, strains, and genotypes. 3. Generate information for sire selection and culling decisions. |
| Goal 1-27 |
1. Assess the productivity and profitability of selected hair sheep genetic resources. 2. Develop production systems which combine appropriate animal germplasm, lambing schedules, marketing strategies, and forage resource utilization. |
| Goal 1-28 |
1. Increase chevon consumption by improving its palatability traits. 2. Develop value-added chevon products of superior quality that would increase chevon consumption among US consumers. |
| Goal 1-29 |
1. Sustain crop and tree production with increased carbon sequestration in the plant and soil. 2. Improve soil and water quality to enable farmers to produce crops and trees that are profitable and environment friendly. |
| Goal 1-30 |
1. Develop vegetable soybean cultivars that are agronomically superior, adapted to the southeastern United States, and produce seed with value-added nutraceutical properties. 2. Increase farmers participation in specialty soybean production for soy food markets. 3. Enhance the share of existing domestic and international markets for specialty soybeans. 4. Increase soybean acreage under organic production systems. |
| Goal 1-31 |
1. Develop methods to produce selected medicinal plant species in the southeastern USA. 2. Determine the relationship between production methods and active ingredient concentration. 3. Establish relationships between postharvest handling methods and active ingredients. |
| Goal 1-32 |
1. Identify, introduce, and evaluate plant germplasm for medicinal properties. 2. Develop protocols for in vitro regeneration of bioactive and medicinal plants. 3. Formulate protocols for in vitro testing of plant stresses. 4. Devise genetic transformation procedures to enhance tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. |
| Goal 1-33 |
1. Identify domestic and exotic sources of medicinal plant germplasm. 2. Develop production practices for selected medicinal plants. 3. Develop in vitro plant regeneration protocols and test cell culture potential. 4. Identify genes for important traits using bulk segregant analysis and molecular markers. 5. Increase concentrations of desired phytochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and productivity of selected plant genotypes/species through transformation. |
| Goal 1-34 |
1. Evaluate selected germplasm of aonla, guava, papaya, and phalsa. 2. Enhance adaptation of exotic fruits in Georgia and the Southeast. 3. Formulate and refine technology for exotic fruit production in Georgia. 4. Develop in vitro protocols for regeneration of different exotic fruit species. 5. Devise environmentally agreeable cultural practices using cold tolerant genotypes. |
| Goal 1-35 |
1. Formulate and optimize in vitro technique to screen papaya germplasm for cold hardiness. 2. Produce and evaluate embryo-rescued papaya hybrids for cold tolerance and sex type. 3. Devise in vitro regeneration protocols for mature vegetative tissues of papaya. 4. Develop genetic transformation protocols for cold hardiness in papaya germplasm using Agrobacterium tumefaciens. 5. Produce and establish cold hardy transgenic papaya plants. 6. Develop environment friendly practices for stress tolerant papaya lines. |
| Goal 1-36 |
1. Devise biotechnological procedures to understand mechanisms of biotic and abiotic stresses. 2. Develop protocols for in vitro regeneration and genetic transformation of peach. 3. Engage biotechnology to improve plant survival and orchard longevity. 4. Develop environment friendly orchard management practices for PTSL tolerant cultivars |
| Goal 1-37 | 1. To develop techniques for micropropagating amaryllis and daylily. |
| Goal 1-38 |
1. Identify suitable plant growth regulator(s) to stimulate early, simultaneous, and abundant emergence of asparagus spears . 2. Determine the optimum time, concentration, and method of application plant growth regulator(s). |
| Goal 1-39 |
1. Introduce, evaluate, and select exotic vegetable germplasm. 2. Develop environment friendly management system. |
| Goal 1-40 |
1. Evaluate domestic and exotic germplasm for identification of desirable traits. 2. Use in vitro techniques to regenerate plants from different tissues. 3. Develop industrial type sweet potato to enhance market potential. 4. Enhance carbohydrates/starch content to increase storage root/dry matter yields to make it economically important for industrial use for starch and alcohol production. 5. Increase starch content of storage roots by recombinant DNA technology. |
GOAL 2 |
A SAFE AND SECURE FOOD AND FIBER SYSTEM |
| Goal 2-9 | Develop value-added chevon products of superior palatability and shelf-life. |
| Goal 2-10 |
1. Develop dairy product technology to overcome the seasonality of goat milk supply 2. Enhance profitability and sustainability of dairy goat industry in Georgia by developing year-round uniform quality goat milk cheeses. |
| Goal 2-11 | |
GOAL 3 |
A HEALTHY, MORE WELL-NOURISHED POPULATION |
| Goal 3-4 |
1. Improve palatability traits of chevon. 2. Develop value-added chevon products. 3. Increase consumption of chevon and chevon products. |
| Goal 3-5 |
1. Introduce vegetable soybean germplasm with nutraceutical properties. 2. Expand cultivation of vegetable soybean for niche markets. |
GOAL 4 |
GREATER HARMONY BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
| Goal 4-13 |
1. Develop an environment friendly organic soybean production system. 2. Minimize chemical usage by employing insect-repellant and trap crops. 3. Develop strategies for sustainable organic farming system. 4. Encourage the use of EM technology. |
| Goal 4-14 |
1. Increase carbon sequestration in the plant and soil. 2. Improve soil and water quality. 3. Increase tree production that reduce global warming. 4. Develop other environment friendly practices. |
| Goal 4-15 |
1. Develop sustainable production system using leguminous and non-leguminous, green manure and cover crops as a substitute for inorganic nitrogenous fertilizers. 2. Produce vegetables using sustainable system. 3. Compare conventional and sustainable systems of vegetable production. |
| Goal 4-16 |
1. Develop in vitro regeneration system for sweet potato. 2. Devise techniques to incorporate Bt genes into important sweet potato cultivars. |
GOAL 5 |
ENHANCED ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR AMERICANS |
| Goal 5-10 |
1. Determine consumer preferences for HVP. 2. Identify market segments and HVP demand. 3. Expand HVP markets. 4. Enhance understanding of contractual arrangements. |
| Goal 5-11 |
1. Evaluate potato germplasm for adaptation, stress tolerance, and processing quality. 2. Develop seed-plot technique to reduce seed cost. 3. Develop true potato seed production technology. 4. Use biotechnology to improve tolerance to temperature stress. 5. Enhance economic opportunities through crop diversification. |