by Adam Cletzer | Aug 20, 2025 | Aquaculture & Fisheries Business Institute, College of Agriculture, Research, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Scientists at Auburn University are shifting their catfish vaccine development strategy to bring vaccines to farmers. “We are developing more cost-effective killed-bacterin vaccines and exploring new ways to get vaccines to Alabama farmers,” said Timothy Bruce,...
by Adam Cletzer | Aug 5, 2025 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, National Poultry Technology Center, Poultry Science, Research
Researchers at Auburn University recently developed new methods for safely using poultry processing wastewater for food-grade hydroponic crop production. By eliminating pathogens, like salmonella, the research team was able to use wastewater from a poultry processing...
by Adam Cletzer | Apr 3, 2025 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, News
Alabama’s $123 billion agriculture industry has identified land loss, profitability and transportation infrastructure among its most pressing challenges in a recent report. The findings of the report will inform Gov. Kay Ivey’s strategic economic growth plan,...
by Adam Cletzer | Mar 26, 2025 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Research, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Better breeding ability would make catfish farming more efficient and profitable The $437 million U.S. catfish industry is in need of better genetic and breeding technologies to be competitive with foreign imports. Recently, Auburn scientists have made advances in...
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...
