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Thank you for visiting our website and learning about our initiative to help growers optimize Labor, Efficiency, Automation, and Production, L.E.A.P., and achieve greater long-term sustainability.  This project and our virtual nursery tour were made possible by the incredible amount of time invested researching and gathering information by Panoramic Farm and Decker’s Nursery.  Their efforts to determine how new technologies will improve their systems, coupled with their tremendous willingness to share their findings with other producers who are beginning on this journey, is a catalyst to LEAP the Green Industry forward toward long-term sustainability. 

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For more information, contact:

Project Director: 
Dr. Anthony LeBude

​​Project Co-Director:
​Dr. Amy Fulcher

Role	Name	Title	Institution	City, State	Email
PD	LeBude, Anthony	Assoc. Prof.	NC State	Mills River, NC	[email protected]
Co-PD	Fulcher, Amy	Prof.	U. Tenn.	Knoxville, TN	[email protected]
CI	Addesso, Karla	Assoc. Prof. & Director	Tenn. State U.	McMinnville, TN	[email protected]
CI	Altland, James	Res. Leader	USDA-ARS	Wooster, OH	[email protected]
CI	Bumgarner, Natalie	Assoc. Prof.	U. Tenn.	Knoxville, TN	[email protected]
CI	Chen, Le	Asst. Prof.	U. Tenn.	Knoxville, TN	[email protected]
CI	Gan, Hao	Asst. Prof.	U. Tenn.	Knoxville, TN	[email protected]
CI	Kantor, George	Prof.	Carnegie Mellon	Pittsburg, PA	[email protected]
CI	Mahmud, Md Sultan	Asst. Prof.	U. Georgia	Athens, GA	[email protected]
CI	Marble, Chris	Assoc. Prof.	U. Florida	Apopka, FL	[email protected]
CI	Nackley, Lloyd	Assoc. Prof.	Oregon State U.	Aurora, OR​	[email protected]
CI	Palma, Marco	Prof.	Texas A&M	Coll. Stat., TX	[email protected]
CI	Ribera, Luis	Prof.	Texas A&M	Coll. Stat., TX	[email protected]
CI	Rihn, Alicia	Asst. Prof.	U. Tenn.	Knoxville, TN	[email protected]
CI	Ruth, Tayler	Asst. Prof.	U. Tenn.	Knoxville, TN	[email protected]
CI	Schexnayder, Susan	Sr. Res. Assoc.	U. Tenn.	Knoxville, TN	[email protected]
CI	Velandia, Margarita	Prof.	U. Tenn.	Knoxville, TN	​[email protected]
CI	Warner, Laura	Assoc. Prof.	U. Florida	Gainesville, FL	[email protected]
CI	Zhu, Heping	Res. Engr.	USDA-ARS	Wooster, OH	[email protected]
PM	Lizeth Vigil	Project Manager	NC State	Raleigh, NC	[email protected]

We are grateful to Panoramic Farm and Decker's Nursery for their incredible generosity and for the financial support of the USDA NIFA SCRI award.