FORT SMITH The Department of the Air Force has officially decided to make Ebbing Air National Guard Base the home of the Foreign Military Sales Program Pilot Training Center.
Frank McGill speaking at the 2016 Georgia Peanut Tour in Tifton, Ga., Sept. 13., 2016. Emails, text, voicemails, tweets, and social posts are all great to get, look at and read, but there is something special about a letter, especially a handwritten one.
I m looking at a letter Mr. Frank McGill sent to me dated Sept. 28, 2016.
In total, I have seven letters Mr. Frank sent to me over the years. They are kept in a special place in my office. No awards match the honor, pride and, yes, great entertainment the letters still provide.
Mr. Frank died March 3 at the age of 95.
If you don t know, he was called Mr. Peanut because he was Georgia’s peanut agronomist from 1954-1982 and spearheaded and championed the package approach for peanut production, a multi-discipline way of solving peanut problems for farmers. The method still works today through county Extension agents, specialists and industry across the Peanut Belt. He was there and usually up front when good things for th
J. Frank McGill, affectionally known throughout the Georgia agricultural community as âMr. Peanut,â passed away surrounded by family on March 3 at age 95 in Tifton, Georgia.
He earned a bachelorâs degree in agronomy in 1951 and a masterâs degree in agronomy in 1962 from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
He began his career with UGA as a county Extension agent in southwest Georgia and later became the stateâs Extension peanut specialist. McGill worked at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station â now known as the UGA Tifton campus â and helped develop a âpackage approachâ for peanut production, which includes management of land preparation, environmental control, variety selection and harvesting. From 1954 to 1982, McGillâs expertise helped Georgiaâs peanut yields increase from 955 pounds per acre in 1955 to 2,040 pounds in 1967 and 3,220 pounds in 1974.
University of Georgia College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
J. Frank McGill, affectionally known throughout the Georgia agricultural community as “Mr. Peanut,” passed away surrounded by family on March 3 at age 95 in Tifton, Georgia.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in agronomy in 1951 and a master’s degree in agronomy in 1962 from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
He began his career with UGA as a county Extension agent in southwest Georgia and later became the state’s Extension peanut specialist. McGill worked at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station now known as the UGA Tifton campus and helped develop a “package approach” for peanut production, which includes management of land preparation, environmental control, variety selection and harvesting. From 1954 to 1982, McGill’s expertise helped Georgia’s peanut yields increase from 955 pounds per acre in 1955 to 2,040 pounds in 1967 and 3,220 pounds in 1974.�