Research & Education
2024 Research Funded by the GWA
The Georgia Watermelon Association plans to support and finance research initiatives this year with a budget of $17,000. Researchers Ted McAvoy and Angelos Deltsidis will be performing projects in the spring 2024 growing season to study post harvest quality attributes for grafted watermelon in Georgia. Performance results will be shared later at the 2025 GWA Annual Conference to be held at Chateau Elan, Braselton, GA on January 24-26, 2025.
To learn more information about the 2025 GWA Conference and registration, visit the Annual Convention page later this year or call our office, Dawn Cheplick at 706-845-8575.
Watermelon Production Meeting - Tift/Worth County
February 5, 2024
Presentations Shared:
- Tift County Watermelon Talk
- 2024 Watermelon Update - McAvoy
- Colquitt County Insect-Sparks
- Colquitt County Disease 2024
- 2024 Colquitt County Update - McAvoy
Fall '23 Update-Whitefly Transmitted Viruses of Cucurbits
Ragunathan Devendran 1,† , Saritha Raman Kavalappara 1,*,†, Alvin M. Simmons 2 and Sudeep Bag 1,*
1 Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA 31793, USA
2 U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture,
Charleston, SC 29414, USA
* Correspondence: sarirk@uga.edu (S.R.K.); sudeepbag@uga.edu (S.B.)
† These authors contributed equally to this work.
Watermelon Promotions
Georgia Watermelon Association’s purpose is watermelon promotion from production to consumption. Promotions can vary from our watermelon queens making appearances and talking at functions, to providing informative links about watermelon and the watermelon industry and sharing interesting watermelon recipes with all of our fans.
more information2025 GWA ANNUAL CONVENTION
Thank you to all attendees, sponsors, presenters and exhibitors who joined together to make the 2023 Annual Meeting another successful event! A very special appreciation to our auction load donors and buyers for their commitment and support of the GWA Live Auction. This event once again proved to be a huge success, from Friday night's President's Welcome Reception and dinner to the crowning of the Queen on Saturday evening! Enjoying friends, great food and good times was the perfect setting throughout the weekend in St. Simons.
more information2024 GWA Brand Ambassador
The Georgia Watermelon Brand Ambassador is a trained public relations representative for the watermelon industry both regionally and nationally. Each year she spends the year traveling to throughout Georgia and the United States, talking to people in supermarkets, schools, festivals, athletic events about the nutritional benefits and economical values of watermelon.
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