by Paul Hollis | Mar 24, 2022 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature
In a groundbreaking, first-of-its kind event, university scientists, engineers, producers, government agencies and industry officials from throughout the Southeast met at Auburn University to brainstorm ways to use artificial intelligence to help farmers. The bottom...
by Paul Hollis | Jan 26, 2022 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Research
With the obesity rate sitting at 36 percent and climbing, researchers are investigating factors contributing to the notoriously poor diet quality in the United States. One possibility might be a common parasite that causes impulsive decisions and changes risk...
by Paul Hollis | Jan 3, 2022 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Feature
An Auburn University research project attempts to determine which approach best improves access to healthy food choices for food assistance recipients in the United States — more government benefits or more grocery stores. The study — authored by Joel Cuffey,...
by Paul Hollis | Dec 14, 2021 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Research
The negative impact humans can have on their own environment is constantly on full display, with climate change, land alterations and harmful algal blooms impacting people’s lives daily. But this isn’t an entirely new phenomenon, according to a recent study published...
by Paul Hollis | Dec 10, 2021 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Research
Auburn’s Production Agriculture Research (PAR) grant program personifies the university’s land-grant research mission by communicating directly with Alabama’s farmers and addressing their most immediate needs. “The PAR grants program, more than any other, sets its...
by Paul Hollis | Dec 1, 2021 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature, News
In the quest to find a solution to one problem, agricultural research oftentimes finds answers to others along the way. Such is the case with researchers from Auburn University’s College of Agriculture, where scientists are working to ensure that waste or litter from...
by Paul Hollis | Oct 6, 2021 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Feature
Auburn University researchers in the College of Agriculture’s Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Department are participating in a new USDA project to optimize design for “agrivoltaic” systems — fields with both crops and solar panels — that will maintain crop...
