The Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium is administered by a Steering Committee involving one administrator, two faculty members and one small fruit grower organization officer or grower representative from each state involved. The Steering Committee meets officially on an annual basis to plan SRSFC activities for the coming year. Budgetary and administrative services for the Consortium are housed at NC State University.
Coordinator and chair
- Wayne Mitchem, North Carolina State University
Administrators
The Executive Committee of the SRSFC Steering Committee is made up of administrators from each state involved.
- Tom Bewick, NIFA liaison
- Kathryn Fontenot, LSU AgCenter
- Desmond R. Layne, Auburn University
- David W. Lockwood, University of Tennessee
- Leo Lombardini, The University of Georgia
- Frank Louws, North Carolina State University
- Wayne Mackay, University of Arkansas
- Andy Rollins, Clemson University
- Jayesh Samtani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Eric T. Stafne, Mississippi State University
In addition to the administrators listed above, the Steering Committee is made up of two faculty members and one small fruit grower organization officer or grower representative from each state involved.
Faculty members
- Zilfina Rubio Ames, The University of Georgia
- Brett Blaauw, The University of Georgia
- Natalie Bumgarner, University of Tennessee
- David Butler, University of Tennessee
- Aaron Cato, University of Arkansas
- Bill Cline, North Carolina State University
- Christine Coker, Mississippi State University
- Elina D. Coneva, Auburn University
- Mary Helen Ferguson, LSU AgCenter
- Mark Hoffman, North Carolina State University
- Amanda McWhirt, University of Arkansas
- Rebecca Melanson, Mississippi State University
- Juan Carlos Melgar, Clemson University
- Wayne Mitchem, North Carolina State University
- Mizuho Nita, Virginia Tech
- Doug Pfeiffer, Virginia Tech
- Michael Polozola, LSU AgCenter
- Guido Schnabel, Clemson University
- Edgar Vinson, Auburn University
Grower representatives
- James Cooley, South Carolina
- Les Dozier, Arkansas
- Jeremy Edwards, Mississippi
- Pierson Geyer, Virginia
- Henry Jones, Tennessee
- Natalie Faust Jones, Louisiana
- Dalton Rhodes, North Carolina
- David Reeves, Alabama
- Marlin Wallace, Arkansas
- Albert Wildes, Georgia