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...
by Paul Hollis | Sep 13, 2024 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature
The line from the classic musical “Oklahoma” that refers to corn being “as high as an elephant’s eye” would not apply to some of the new hybrids becoming available to producers. Reduced-stature corn, also referred to as “short” corn, is a concept that has gained...
by Paul Hollis | Aug 21, 2024 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, News, Research
Auburn University’s peanut breeding program is still in its infancy by most standards. It was begun in 2012, compared to similar programs at the University of Florida and University of Georgia that were begun in 1928 and 1938, respectively. And plant breeding, by its...
