Glen Ritchie

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  www.cottonfarming.com/home/2008_AugCF-ShortFiber.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 9/9/2008  

  Glen Ritchie, UGA crop physiologist, says producers should try to do what they can to keep the fruiting cycle as compact as possible and to make sure it is as mature as possible before defoliating.He says Bednarz, in research conducted at UGA, found that the best fiber quality was achieved when the crop was defoliated at 60 to 70 percent open boll.
  
  "A better yield may be had at 80 to 90 percent open boll," he says.

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  www.cottonfarming.com/home/2008_JulyCF-Decisions.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 7/15/2008  

  "We are still in a drought situation, but no one is running out of water at this point," says Glen Ritchie, University of Georgia cotton physiologist.
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  Ritchie agrees that producers face a real challenge to provide what the crop needs and making it pay in the end.
  
  "Producers tend to be pretty efficient with irrigation," he says."If anything, they may tend to underwater a little bit, or they may wait a little long to put the water on.It really is a matter of finding a good balance."
  
  Ritchie says it is obvious the areas where producers planted into a little moisture, but then it turned off dry.
  
  "We are seeing skips in fields, and some areas are really hit and miss,"he says.
  
  Ritchie adds that skips in the field reduce yields, but they also can reduce quality.
  
  "We have found that quality is loosely tied to plant density," he says."You don't usually see quality issues until you see a field that has a lot of skips."
  
  Quality Dependent On Moisture
  
  According to Ritchie, these things are dependent on plant density, which goes back to emergence and needing moisture to emerge uniformly.
  
  But he, like many others, knows that cotton is good at compensating for a few skips.
  
  "In the past, when we have had significant rain in August and September, the crop has recovered," Ritchie says.
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  In the meantime, Ritchie and a team of researchers are pursuing studies with the goal of improving water management and efficiency.Some of those study areas are as follows:
  
  , Relationship between cotton and water.These are studies aimed at increasing the understanding of plant water use, irrigation timing and irrigation efficiency."Essentially, getting at precisely how much water the crop needs and when it needs it," Ritchie says.
  
  , Subsurface irrigation.
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  "We are also looking closely at varieties, and, specifically, we are looking at ones that will do better when we are limited on water," Ritchie says.
  
  , Interaction between plant growth regulator and water management by the crop."We are looking at relationships between plant growth regulator (PGR) applications and water," Ritchie says.

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  ABCNEWS.com : Ga. Researchers Use Blimp to Study Cotton - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/12/2004    Last Visited: 7/13/2004  

  "When you walk in a field, you see only a small portion (of the crop)," said researcher Glen Ritchie, one of two graduate students working on the project.
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  Glen Ritchie, center, checks the payload of a farm research blimp while Jared Whitaker, at left, and Craig Bednarz, hold the airship in position near Camilla, Ga., on Friday, June 25, 2004.

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  Agriculture equipment, farm magazines, farm equipment,... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/26/2006    Last Visited: 5/26/2006  

  That's what University of Georgia researchers Glen Ritchie and Craig Bednarz did when they wanted to find an inexpensive and easy way to decide when to irrigate a cotton field.
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  It was something we could put in the shop, grab when we needed, run out and take the measurements," Ritchie says.
  
  Although they spent about $2,000 to create the system, Ritchie says you could do it for a lot less."You can pick up a lot of the equipment at Wal-Mart."
  
  They bought the 15-ft. long helium tethered blimp kit for about $500 through Southern Balloon Works Inc. (ph 800 348-4903 or 888 705-1455; www.southernballoonworks.com).
  
  "The nice thing about it was that they gave us an idea of the amount of lift each of their blimps has and we selected one with a lift of between 5 and 10 lbs.," Ritchie says.
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  Ritchie admits he didn't have much electrical knowledge but was able to put everything together.
  
  "One of the things we were concerned about was the string," he says."It was 1,000 ft. long and had 110 lbs. of tensile strength but was only twice as thick as a yoyo string.But we haven't had any problems with it breaking or coming undone."
  
  In order to avoid problems with the FAA, they can only run it up to about 300 ft. "You can ask for special permission and usually, they'll let you run it up a quarter mile or 2,000 ft. which is good enough to see over center pivots.It's never going to replace an airplane but for something up to 70 acres, it works pretty good," Ritchie says.
  
  It takes a full helium tank to fill the blimp.
  
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Glen Ritchie, University of Georgia, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences, Coastal Plain Experiment Station, P.O. Box 748, Tifton, Georgia 31793 (ph 229 391-2513; email: gritchie@uga.edu).

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  CM Stripling Irrigation Research Park - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/16/2009    Last Visited: 6/16/2009  

  Glen Ritchie, Ph.D., Crop Physiologist Phone: (229) 391-2695 gritchie@uga.edu

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  CM Stripling Irrigation Research Park - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/16/2009    Last Visited: 6/16/2009  

  Glen Ritchie Assistant Professor, Crop and Soil Sciences

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  Published on: 6/25/2004    Last Visited: 7/13/2004  

  Glen Ritchie, center, checks the payload of a farm research blimp while Jared Whitaker, at left, and Craig Bednarz, hold the airship in position near Camilla, Ga., on Friday, June 25, 2004. The University of Georgia researchers are using aerial infrared photography to develop a scientific method for detecting drought stress in cotton fields before the plants actually wilt. (AP Photo/Elliott Minor)
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  Glen Ritchie, center, checks the payload of a farm research blimp while Jared Whitaker, at left, and Craig Bednarz, hold the airship in position near Camilla, Ga., on Friday, June 25, 2004.
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  "When you walk in a field, you see only a small portion (of the crop)," said researcher Glen Ritchie, one of two graduate students working on the project.

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  Cotton Farming - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/4/2005    Last Visited: 2/4/2005  

  In the oral presentation competition, first place and $300 went to Glenn Ritchie, University of Georgia, for "Cotton Irrigation Timing Using Remote Sensing," second place and $200 went to Jonathan Siebert, Louisiana State University, for "Plant Population and Within Row Planting Configuration Effects on Cotton Growth and Yield," and third place and $100 went to Nicole Asprodites, University of New Orleans/USDA Agricultural Research Service, for "Cloning and Characterization of Three ROP/RAC G-Proteins from Gossypium hirsutum."

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  Researchers use blimp to help irrigation - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/11/2004    Last Visited: 7/11/2004  

  Glen Ritchie, center, checks the payload of a farm research blimp while Jared Whitaker, at left, and Craig Bednarz hold the airship in position near Camilla on June 25.
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  ‘‘When you walk in a field, you see only a small portion (of the crop)," said researcher Glen Ritchie, one of two graduate students working on the project. ‘‘When a plant wilts, it has stopped growing.There's no photosynthesis.

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  The Sun News | 07/13/2004 | Blimps detect stress in... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/13/2004    Last Visited: 7/13/2004  

  "When you walk in a field, you see only a small portion [of the crop]," said researcher Glen Ritchie, one of two graduate students working on the project.

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