by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Auburn University researchers are helping poultry producers combat a massive and costly outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza. Auburn University poultry scientists Joe Giambrone and Ken Macklin are using funding from the U.S. egg industry to investigate how...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
An estimated 70 percent of women in the U.S. develop fibroid tumors in the uterus by age 50, and while the noncancerous tumors cause no symptoms for the majority of those women, they make life miserable for tens of thousands of others. Within his own family, Wallace...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Animal sciences assistant professor Christy Bratcher and a multidisciplinary team of scientists from Auburn and Tuskegee universities are working on a multi-year, $4.8 million grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to help ensure the safety of...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Developing new specialty crops like grapes is one way of growing and revitalizing rural areas of Alabama. Elina Coneva, an associate professor in Auburn University’s Department of Horticulture, dreams of making the grape a profitable specialty crop for Alabama...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
The Southeast Climate Extension project, a large-scale partnership of six universities across the Southeast, was recently awarded the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Partnership Award for Multistate Efforts. Brenda Ortiz, an associate professor in Auburn...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Brenda Ortiz, an associate professor in the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, is researching the impact of weather and climate on agriculture, particularly grain crops like wheat and soybeans. Working with...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Concerns over agriculture’s impact on global environmental change have prompted extensive research aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon sequestration in row-crop, forest and livestock production systems, but a study underway at Auburn...