UPDATE

Re-adverdisement: Superintendent and Research Engineer.
Searches for a Superintendent and a Research Engineer continue. For Superintendent, UGA seeks an experienced field research manager, especialy one with irrigation experience to lead efforts at SIRP. The Research Engineer will assist in efforts to add automation, remote control, and water and power monitoring to improve labor, energy, and water use efficiency for Georgia irrigators

Calvin Perry, Research and Extension Engineer with the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Tifton, GA, is serving as Interim Superintendent for SIRP. Calvin has been a leader in design and installation of the flexible and water-conserving VRI irrigation systems around the Southeast. He has conducted research at SIRP on irrigation efficiency and irrigation system controls.

The new positions are designed to bolster UGA's efforts to assist farmers with appropriate water conservation practices, new measures to boost irrigation efficiency, and cost effective strategies and technologies to improve irrigatied crop production.
Read the news release on Georgia FACES

The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences operates this state-of-the-art irrigation research and education center as part of their efforts in agricultural irrigation.

The Stripling Irrigation Research Park signals Georgia's commitment to leadership and problem solving in irrigation for a part of the country labeled "humid" but, in fact, chronically short of water.

Located on Ga Highway 37 between Camilla and Newton in the heart of the Dougherty Plain, one of Georgia's most productive irrigated agricultural areas, the facility is readily accessible to farmers, irrigation suppliers, scientists, engineers and others interested in irrigation.

The attached web pages provide access to the research and extension programs of the Stripling Irrigation Research Park, as well as to related research conducted at other locations of the University of Georgia.


Phone: (229)-522-3623
8207 Highway 37 West
Camilla, GA 31730