by Paul Hollis | Jul 18, 2017 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Zhanjiang “John” Liu—Auburn University’s associate provost and associate vice president for research, and a professor in the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences—was named a Fellow of the World Aquaculture Society at its annual meeting, held June...
by Paul Hollis | Jul 18, 2017 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
By Paul Hollis A research team led by Auburn University is working to help peanut farmers maintain and improve their production in a changing environment that’s certain to include increasingly limited water resources. “Adequate water availability for all crops is an...
by Paul Hollis | Jul 18, 2017 | AAES Administration, Ag Land & Resource Management, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Paul Hollis By most any standard, a $1.85 return on an initial investment of $1 is a good deal. According to a recent study, that’s what federal investments into agricultural research pay back through additional investments from state, local and private-sector...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 26, 2017 | Ag Land & Resource Management, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Paul Hollis Auburn is joining with three other Southeastern universities in a $5 million research effort to help ensure water for agricultural production while maintaining healthy rivers and springs. The project—funded by a five-year grant from the United States...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 19, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
By Steve Li Cover crops can provide many benefits to peanut and cotton rotations in terms of suppressing weeds, conserving soil moisture for planting, increasing soil organic matter, reducing soil erosion and more. In fields where residual herbicides are used during...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 19, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Poultry Science
By Paul Hollis Have you ever bitten into your favorite fast-food chicken sandwich only to find the meat is tough and chewy? This could become a rarity, thanks to a process an Auburn University researcher is developing to rapidly detect poor meat quality in chicken...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 6, 2017 | Ag Land & Resource Management, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Ravali Bheemanathini Alabama has enough miles of rivers and streams to circle the earth five times, and for the past 25 years, a devoted group of citizen volunteers has worked to protect these bountiful water resources. The group is Alabama Water Watch, and as it...
