by William Cahalin | Mar 5, 2013 | Animal Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Animal sciences assistant professor Christy Bratcher and a multidisciplinary team of scientists from Auburn and Tuskegee universities have been awarded a five-year, $4.8 million grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to help ensure...
by William Cahalin | Mar 4, 2013 | Horticulture
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University–patented kiwifruit varieties are now on the market, offering home gardeners across central and south Alabama a new and refreshing fruit possibility and the region’s produce farmers a promising high-value specialty crop. Included among...
by William Cahalin | Feb 22, 2013 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
AUBURN, Ala.—Agriculture, forestry and their related industries account for 41 percent of Alabama’s $174 billion economy and provide 22 percent of all jobs in the state, a new report from Auburn University’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology...
by William Cahalin | Feb 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
AUBURN, Ala.—The College of Agriculture’s E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer Series, in conjunction with Auburn University’s Littleton-Franklin Lectures, will present anti-hunger activist Roger Thurow delivering the lecture “The Last Hunger Season: Meeting the Great...
by William Cahalin | Feb 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
NEWEST MEMBERS Three men who have made lasting contributions to Alabama agriculture were inducted into the Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association’s Ag Hall of Honor in a ceremony Jan. 31 in Auburn. The inductees were Tommy Paulk of Decatur, second from...
by William Cahalin | Jan 22, 2013 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology
AUBURN, Ala.—Research that Alabama Ag Experiment Station entomologist David Held is conducting in labs at Auburn is shedding new light on the secret lives of mole crickets, and his findings could eventually lead to improved strategies for controlling the costly pests....
by William Cahalin | Jan 17, 2013 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alumni Stories
Lord Kwakye Ameyaw completed a Master of Science Degree in Rural Sociology from Auburn University in 2013. He recently completed a PhD in Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. Lord works as an Agroforester with the Nebraska...