by Paul Hollis | Jun 12, 2025 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture, Cotton, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Major Row Crops, Research
Cotton is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable plants in the world, with its heart-shaped leaves and branches that explode into powder-white fruit. But it’s also one of the more understudied field crops. “Previously, it was unclear where and which specific...
by Paul Hollis | May 19, 2025 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop Production, News, Research
As spring planting shifts into high gear in farmers’ fields throughout the Southeast, few agricultural operations come close to matching the diversity of crops and locations as the outlying units of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station at Auburn University....
by Paul Hollis | Mar 24, 2025 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, News, Research
Imagine a weed that can produce 600,000 seeds per plant and grow as much as 2.5 inches per day. Such a weed exists, and it’s not being grown somewhere in a secure lab — it’s widespread in the fields of Alabama farmers and throughout the United States. This “super”...
by Paul Hollis | Mar 20, 2025 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Feature, Research
Is growing a cover crop on Alabama farms a solution or a problem for growers in the state who are trying to prevent soil and water erosion losses? A grant funded through the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station research program for the current fiscal year will...
by Paul Hollis | Jan 29, 2025 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, News
Auburn University researchers and Alabama Extension specialists are taking their expertise from labs and small experimental plots to Alabama farmers’ fields with a $4 million grant from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The grant aims to increase...
by Paul Hollis | Dec 11, 2024 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, News, Research
Auburn-developed method could advance efforts to breed a drought-tolerant peanut Auburn University researchers have devised a new means of measuring the physiological characteristics of peanut plants that should prove to be instrumental in speeding the breeding...
by Paul Hollis | Oct 9, 2024 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature, Research
When can there be too many deer even for a hunting enthusiast? When that same enthusiast is a row-crop farmer, and the deer are using their fields as an all-you-can-eat buffet. While deer grazing on crops has been a consistent problem for decades, it has escalated in...
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