Timothy Coolong Joins GenNext Growers Advisory Board
January 7, 2014 
Timothy Coolong, an associate professor of Horticulture and Extension vegetable specialist at the University of Georgia (UGA), has been named a Founding Member of the Advisory Council of the GenNext Growers™ initiative.
Coolong joined UGA in the summer of 2013 after working as the vegetable specialist at the University of Kentucky for six years. He has a wide range of research interests in vegetables that have ranged from flavor chemistry in onions to high tunnels and irrigation — and more recently, fertility management and variety selection. He has worked with growers of all sizes and production systems from very diversified organic Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) to large-scale producers who ship nationwide.
About the GenNext Growers Initiative
The GenNext Growers Initiative was founded in 2013 by American Fruit Grower, American Vegetable Grower, and Florida Grower magazines as a cross-produce-industry “umbrella” initiative to help identify, inform and inspire the next generation of growers who:
- Were born after 1970
- Are preparing to assume, or already have assumed, leadership in a farming enterprise
- Have a passion to produce high-quality specialty crops: fruits, vegetables, and citrus
- Seek to be advocates for their industry
The aim of this Initiative is to identify, develop and promote across the industry the best practices of the nation’s most promising up-and-coming specialty crop growers; to help pull together and bring a national voice to the many national, state, and regional young growers programs currently underway; and to ensure a smooth generational transition and the long-term viability of America’s fruit, vegetable and citrus industries.
For more information about the GenNext Growers Initiative, visit www.GenNextGrowers.com, follow the Initiative on Twitter at @GenNextGrowers, visit the GenNext Growers LinkedIn group and at facebook.com/GenNextGrowers.
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