by Adam Cletzer | Feb 6, 2025 | Poultry Science, Research
Each year, the Alabama poultry industry produces two fully loaded Nimitz-class aircraft carriers’ worth of poultry litter, or about 3.6 billion pounds. Poultry litter is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, and much of the waste product is applied to farmland as a...
by Adam Cletzer | Dec 16, 2024 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Research
Research made possible by $300,000 USDA-NIFA grant The scale of pork production in the U. S. is such that reducing the average pig’s time on feed by just one day can put $76 million back into pork producers’ pockets. Animal scientists at Auburn University are...
by Adam Cletzer | Nov 21, 2024 | Feature, Research, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Catfish farmers may be hurting their profitability by needlessly sacrificing male catfish when collecting sperm for breeding, according to a recent Auburn study. The same study discovered the indicators farmers commonly use to select males for breeding, like head size...
by Adam Cletzer | Sep 27, 2024 | Biosystems Engineering, Feature, News, Poultry Science
The average broiler chicken lives 6–8 weeks and spends much of that time indoors, but researchers at Auburn University are investigating the use of natural light in broiler houses and its effects on bird performance and welfare. A team of agricultural engineers,...
by Adam Cletzer | Aug 14, 2024 | Animal Sciences, Feature
Program made possible by $246,000 USDA-NIFA grant A College of Agriculture program for future leaders in the beef industry is entering its final academic year and taking stock of its impact. The highly selective National Needs Fellowship (NNF) prepared a dozen future...
by Adam Cletzer | Aug 13, 2024 | Feature, Research, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Vaccine development made possible by $300,000 USDA-NIFA grant Largemouth bass producers may soon have a new vaccine for a common pathogen affecting the unusually death-prone fish species. Auburn University researchers are working to lower the fish’s near 80% mortality...
by Adam Cletzer | Jul 23, 2024 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Feature, Research
Researchers at Auburn University aim to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions due to agriculture by modifying one of the world’s largest voluntary conservation programs: the USDA’s 25-million-acre Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). A team of agricultural economists...
