BLACKVILLE — 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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