The Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT) Club at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College will host Dr. Gale Buchanan on March 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Chapel of All Faiths on the ABAC campus.  Members of the community as well as students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited.  There is no charge to attend.

“We are very fortunate to have our Speaker Series event, and we are so proud to bring Dr. Gale Buchanan to campus to share his story on ‘Growing Georgia’s Agriculture’,” said Loren Lindler, President for ABAC’s ACT chapter.

Buchanan grew up on his family’s peanut farm in Madison County, Fla., where he spent many days hoeing weeds out of the peanut rows.  He served as director of the University of Georgia (UGA) Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton from 1986 to 1994. In 1995, Buchanan was named Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at UGA, and he served in that position until 2005.

A member of the Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame in honor of his contributions to agricultural research, Buchanan focused a great deal of effort on researching ways to reduce weed pressure on peanuts, using herbicides and improved planting methods.