by Adam Cletzer | Mar 12, 2026 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, News
Herbicide-resistant weeds are a multimillion-dollar problem for Alabama cotton growers. New research will examine how two widely used pre-planting practices – poultry litter application and cover crops – affect weed emergence. The study will define best management...
by Adam Cletzer | Feb 12, 2026 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Aquaculture & Fisheries Business Institute, News, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Much like humans during the holidays, fish seldom catch just one cold at a time. Yet much of what scientists know about fish health has been learned by studying pathogens one by one. Fish scientists at Auburn University and the USDA are challenging that approach...
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...
