by Josh Woods | May 27, 2020 | News
By Office of Agricultural Communications and Marketing / May 27, 2020 11:21:05 AM In early March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Alabama, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, like Auburn University and other agencies and businesses, transitioned to an alternative...
by Josh Woods | Mar 31, 2020 | Alumni Stories, Feature
Chastity Westry is no slacker. The ’97 agricultural business and economics alumna is one busy lady who wears many titles: billion-dollar sales executive, mentor, philanthropist, wife, mother of an active teenager and now third-year law student. Also add to the list a...
by Josh Woods | Mar 30, 2020 | News
By Joshua Woods / Mar 30, 2020 11:41:22 AM News While Auburn University’s College of Agriculture currently cannot host prospective students due to the COVID-19 outbreak, students are now visiting through live virtual tours and information sessions. Live visits are...
by Josh Woods | Mar 27, 2020 | COA Administration, Development, News
By Joshua Woods / Mar 27, 2020 3:09:38 PM News Veteran gift planning expert Phillip Cowart was recently named the College of Agriculture’s director of development. As director, Cowart will lead college efforts to raise private funds for research, facilities,...
by Josh Woods | Mar 17, 2020 | News
Effective late yesterday, Auburn University has adopted a new operational model in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus among our university family and the communities around us. This extraordinary effort is made solely with the interest of everyone’s...
by Josh Woods | Feb 28, 2020 | Alumni Stories, Donor Impact Stories, Feature, Poultry Science
By Meghan McDonald / Feb 28, 2020 9:34:04 AM Feature Ray Hilburn (’78), associate director of the Alabama Poultry and Egg Association, began mentoring College of Agriculture students eight years ago. “I decided to participate to give back to the College of Agriculture...
by Josh Woods | Aug 2, 2019 | Animal Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, News
By Joshua Woods / Aug 2, 2019 4:42:28 PM News The Alabama Farmers Federation honored two Auburn University and Alabama Cooperative Extension System professionals for work tangibly affecting farmers and agriculture with inaugural Alfa Awards, presented before hundreds...
