Jack Bailey Memorial Tour

August 2004

Dr. Jack Bailey, long-time Professor and Extension Specialist in the department who died unexpectedly, had a passion for teaching and mentoring students. He saw that both applied and basic research was needed to solve disease problems for growers. For example, he developed an environmental monitoring device for in-field use in support of his disease forecasting models for leaf spot in peanuts when no suitable device was available. He regularly invited student groups and faculty to his family's suburban home for discussions and socials. In his honor, the faculty chose to name the student tour in his memory.

The tour aims to introduce students in plant pathology to agriculture and agribusiness in North Carolina. This year the tour focused on the Yakin Valley in the upper piedmont where varietal grape production for the wine market is expanding. The students and faculty visited a sustainable agricultural farm growing for the local farmer's market, a farming operation that grows and packages popcorn, a dairy operation whose main business is now based on compost produced from the dairy, and three establishments that have found alternative crops for tobacco, two that turned to grapes and the wine market and a third that now grows field-grown nursery stock for the landscape industry.

Peregrine Farms: Alex Hitt explains sustainable ag	Peregrine Farms: Cut flower production
Shiloh Nursery: Mike Adams demos tree spade	Shiloh Nursery: Students hear about nursery crops
Daddy Pete's: Composting at the dairy farm	Daddy Pete's: Compost turner
Shallowford Farms: Popcorn seed cleaner & sorter	Shallowford Farms: Continuous flow corn popper
Laurel Gray Vineyards: Kim Myers explains grape growing	Laurel Gray Vineyards: Kim Myers explains wines

2004 Tour sites flyer