Blackville, South Carolina, USA
July 28, 2009
 Clemson
University’s Jay Chapin has received the 2009 Research and
Education Award from the American Peanut Council for his
contributions to the peanut industry.
Chapin, an extension peanut and small grain specialist at the
Edisto Research and Education Center, received the award June 23
at the council’s annual meeting in Jacksonville, Fla.
The Peanut Foundation’s Technical Review Committee, which guides
the group’s research, votes for the recipient at the council’s
spring conference, held annually in March. The recipient is
announced at the annual USA Peanut Congress in June.
Chapin said, “I’m honored to be recognized by the American
Peanut Council, but it would not have happened without the many
contributions of my co-worker, James Thomas, and the long-term
support of peanut growers through the S.C. Peanut Board.”
Chapin’s peanut research has included understanding the feeding
behavior and the economic impact of canopy-feeding insects;
documenting leaf-spot resistance to tebuconazole;
disease-resistant varieties; crop response to nutrient
supplements; and the effects of soil fungicides on the
profitability of soil-insecticide use.
Chapin, who joined Clemson in 1979, has been a member of the
America Peanut Research and Education Society since 1980. He has
served on the society’s board of directors and as an associate
editor of the journal Peanut Science.
He was the 2006 recipient of the Wallace Bailey Award for
outstanding research, as selected by his peers in the American
Peanut Research and Education Society.
In 2007 he received the Clemson University Alumni Distinguished
Cooperative Extension Public Service Award and in 2008 the Dow
AgroSciences Award for Education in peanut production. |
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