by Paul Hollis | May 1, 2018 | Feature, National Poultry Technology Center, Poultry Science
Live poultry production in the U.S. is on the cusp of revolutionary changes, and Auburn University’s National Poultry Technology Center, or NPTC, is helping to ensure that producers are not left behind. “Efficiency is the key to everything we do,” said Gene Simpson,...
by Paul Hollis | Jan 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Paul Hollis / Jan 25, 2018 11:17:36 AM Feature New and improved peanut varieties could be coming growers’ and consumers’ way more frequently in the future with the successful mapping of the crop’s genetic code. The Peanut Genome Consortium—an international team of...
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by Paul Hollis | Nov 17, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
By Eddie McGriff McMichen Farm has become the first farm in Alabama to make and break the 100-bushel soybean barrier with just more than 102 bushels per acre. The Cherokee County farm—located near Centre in northeast Alabama—has been in the McMichen family since 1842....
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by Paul Hollis | Nov 17, 2017 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Paul Hollis Auburn researchers will use an almost $321,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to field-test a novel vaccine that would effectively and economically control one of the most serious bacterial infections in the aquaculture industry today. Columnaris...
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by Paul Hollis | Oct 16, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Feature, Horticulture
By Elina Coneva In a long-term research project, 11 grape varieties tolerant to a dangerous disease threat were planted and evaluated for their suitability to Alabama environmental conditions. The Pierce’s disease-tolerant American and French-American hybrid bunch...
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by Paul Hollis | Oct 16, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Feature
By Derek Herscovici Alabama is home to many pests, and as of 2010 it was introduced to a new one, Halyomorpha halys, a.k.a. the brown marmorated stink bug, or BMSB. Whenever a new species is introduced, this presents the opportunity for research; for entomology grad...
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by Paul Hollis | Oct 16, 2017 | AAES Administration, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature
By Paul Hollis The latest numbers tell the irrigation story: In Alabama, only 15 percent of the land currently available for farming is irrigated, a far cry from Mississippi’s 61 percent of cropland and Georgia’s 40 percent. Over time, that lack of irrigation...
