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Auburn research makes Alabama-grown beer possible
Research shows Alabama barley good for beer, rotational crop The first beer ever brewed from Alabama-grown barley made its debut this past fall, and Auburn University researchers are looking at even more possibilities for a crop that’s not so common to farmers in the...
Tian awarded NOAA grant for improving U.S. precipitation observations using AI
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Auburn University’s Di Tian a two-year, $313,420 grant to develop improved long-term, high-resolution precipitation data over the United States. Tian is an associate professor in Auburn’s Department of Crop,...
Auburn professors, farmers shaping the future of farming in Alabama
How challenging is it to farm sustainably? The answer is complex. While technological and scientific advancements have improved the resiliency of modern farms, there...
Building a better peanut plant
Auburn researchers look for drought tolerance The old adage of not being able to control the weather might be true, but Auburn researchers are looking for ways to at...
Hague named new head of Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences Department
An internationally recognized cotton breeder has been selected as the next head of the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences in the Auburn University...
Auburn professor, grad lead Team USA to international soil judging championship
Auburn University soils professor Joey Shaw just led Team USA to a world championship at the International Soil Judging Contest in Godollo, Hungary. Auburn crop, soils and environmental sciences student Kristen Pegues was the highest scorer in the competition, making her the world’s No. 1 soil judge in 2015.
USA! USA!
Agronomy grad, professor take soil judging to the global stage by JAMIE CREAMER Here’s the situation Kristen Pegues finds herself in right now: She’s 5,300 miles from home, in a field somewhere northeast of Budapest, and life is the pits. Not the pits, as in terrible;...
2015 Ag Roundup set for homecoming Saturday, Oct. 3
Auburn University’s 2015 homecoming celebration and football game are set for Saturday, Oct. 3, and so is the 36th annual Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture. The latter will take place at Ag Heritage Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Auburn–San Jose State...
Leader in Africa's 'green revolution' to present seminar
Innocent Okuku, a key player in a movement to bring about a “green revolution” in sub-Saharan Africa, will present a visiting scholar seminar at Auburn University Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 11:45 a.m.in Comer Hall, room 109. The presentation, “Global Food Security...
Horticulture Club members fare well in competition
Members of Auburn University’s Horticulture Club had strong showings in the collegiate-level plant identification and horticultural commodity judging competition held during the American Society for Horticultural Science’s annual conference in New Orleans earlier this...
'Tis The Season
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Credit card offers, utility bills, unsolicited coupons and catalogs. If this is what typically fills your mailbox, you may have become understandably unexcited about the routine trip to the end of the driveway or the local post office. But...
Srivastava new head of Auburn's Water Resources Center
Puneet Srivastava, an ecological engineering professor in Auburn University’s Department of Biosystems Engineering and the Butler-Cunningham Eminent Scholar on Agriculture and the Environment in the College of Agriculture, has taken the reins of the interdisciplinary...
Growing for good
story and video by NATHAN KELLY Food Bank Garden helps feed community The garden was founded almost a decade ago by Beth Guertal, a professor of agronomy. According to Zack Ogles, a Ph.D. student studying under Guertal, the garden’s purpose then—and now—is to feed the...
Auburn aquatic scientist teams with environmentalist in new book
AUBURN, Ala.—Claude Boyd, veteran professor in Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, has a new book out. It is the eighth that the internationally recognized aquatic scientist and water-quality expert has authored, co-authored or...
College of Agriculture, Cuba sign academic exchange treaty
The Auburn University College of Agriculture has entered a historic partnership with the Agrarian University of Havana and the Cuban National Center for Animal and Plant Health that paves the way for faculty and student exchange programs and collaborative research efforts between Auburn agriculture and the Cuban institutions.
Living his dream
Brady Peek graduated from Auburn University at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 9. At 5 a.m. on Monday, May 11, he became a full-time farmer. The new agronomy and soils graduate’s farming operation is in the Limestone County community of Elkmont, where he was born and raised, and encompasses 800 acres of leased farmland.
De La Fuente wins undergrad research mentorship award
AUBURN, Ala.—Leonardo De La Fuente, associate professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University, is one of two recipients of the 2015-16 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship. He...
Guertal receives TOCA award for column series in Golf Course Management magazine
Elizabeth Guertal, a professor in turfgrass and nutrient management, received a merit award from the Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association last week for her column series, Verdure. Her column appears monthly in Golf Course Management magazine. Guertal’s was...
Cures for what ails you
by JAMIE CREAMER What began in 2006 as a small-scale study to determine whether medicinal herbs had potential as a profitable alternative crop for Alabama growers is now a 4,200-square-foot garden boasting more than 60 species and varieties of plants that humans...
Auburn University Soil Judging Team wins 2015 national title
The Auburn University Soil Judging Team is No. 1 in the country after besting 21 other teams from universities across the country during the American Society of Agronomy’s 2015 National Collegiate Soils Contest April 18-24 at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
Brantley, DeVries to receive 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards
Two College of Agriculture faculty members are among the five individuals and two groups selected as recipients of Auburn’s 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards. The awards will be presented in a ceremony Wednesday, April 22, at 3:30 p.m. at Ag Heritage Park’s Farmers...
Hoyum named alumnus of the year
Dr. Raymond A. Hoyum of Alpharetta, Ga., was honored as the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science’s 2015 Alumnus of the Year at a ceremony April 16. Hoyum is a two-time graduate of the department, earning M.S. in agronomy in 1973 and his Ph.D. in agronomy in 1976.
The Market at Ag Heritage Park to open 2015 season May 14
AUBURN, Ala.—The Market at Ag Heritage Park, Auburn University’s open-air farmers market, will open its 2015 season Thursday, May 14, at 3 p.m. and will continue every Thursday, from 3 to 6 p.m., through Aug. 27. The market is located near the intersection of South...
Shannon wins honor for distance ed efforts
Dennis Shannon, a professor in Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, has been recognized by a national distance education coalition for his work in developing a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary online graduate degree program in...
Four ag faculty awarded promotion, tenure
Four College of Agriculture faculty members have been awarded promotion, tenure or both for 2015, Auburn University Provost Timothy Boosinger has announced. Advancing from the academic rank of associate professor to full professor are Kenneth Macklin in the Department...
Chen recognized for contributions to International Peanut Genome Project
Charles Chen, an associate professor and peanut breeder in the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, was recently recognized by the International Peanut Genome Initiative for his contributions to ongoing...
Auburn professor, grad lead Team USA to international soil judging championship
Auburn University soils professor Joey Shaw just led Team USA to a world championship at the International Soil Judging Contest in Godollo, Hungary. Auburn crop, soils and environmental sciences student Kristen Pegues was the highest scorer in the competition, making her the world’s No. 1 soil judge in 2015.
USA! USA!
Agronomy grad, professor take soil judging to the global stage by JAMIE CREAMER Here’s the situation Kristen Pegues finds herself in right now: She’s 5,300 miles from home, in a field somewhere northeast of Budapest, and life is the pits. Not the pits, as in terrible;...
2015 Ag Roundup set for homecoming Saturday, Oct. 3
Auburn University’s 2015 homecoming celebration and football game are set for Saturday, Oct. 3, and so is the 36th annual Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture. The latter will take place at Ag Heritage Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Auburn–San Jose State...
Leader in Africa's 'green revolution' to present seminar
Innocent Okuku, a key player in a movement to bring about a “green revolution” in sub-Saharan Africa, will present a visiting scholar seminar at Auburn University Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 11:45 a.m.in Comer Hall, room 109. The presentation, “Global Food Security...
Horticulture Club members fare well in competition
Members of Auburn University’s Horticulture Club had strong showings in the collegiate-level plant identification and horticultural commodity judging competition held during the American Society for Horticultural Science’s annual conference in New Orleans earlier this...
'Tis The Season
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Credit card offers, utility bills, unsolicited coupons and catalogs. If this is what typically fills your mailbox, you may have become understandably unexcited about the routine trip to the end of the driveway or the local post office. But...
Srivastava new head of Auburn's Water Resources Center
Puneet Srivastava, an ecological engineering professor in Auburn University’s Department of Biosystems Engineering and the Butler-Cunningham Eminent Scholar on Agriculture and the Environment in the College of Agriculture, has taken the reins of the interdisciplinary...
Growing for good
story and video by NATHAN KELLY Food Bank Garden helps feed community The garden was founded almost a decade ago by Beth Guertal, a professor of agronomy. According to Zack Ogles, a Ph.D. student studying under Guertal, the garden’s purpose then—and now—is to feed the...
Auburn aquatic scientist teams with environmentalist in new book
AUBURN, Ala.—Claude Boyd, veteran professor in Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, has a new book out. It is the eighth that the internationally recognized aquatic scientist and water-quality expert has authored, co-authored or...
College of Agriculture, Cuba sign academic exchange treaty
The Auburn University College of Agriculture has entered a historic partnership with the Agrarian University of Havana and the Cuban National Center for Animal and Plant Health that paves the way for faculty and student exchange programs and collaborative research efforts between Auburn agriculture and the Cuban institutions.
Living his dream
Brady Peek graduated from Auburn University at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 9. At 5 a.m. on Monday, May 11, he became a full-time farmer. The new agronomy and soils graduate’s farming operation is in the Limestone County community of Elkmont, where he was born and raised, and encompasses 800 acres of leased farmland.
De La Fuente wins undergrad research mentorship award
AUBURN, Ala.—Leonardo De La Fuente, associate professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University, is one of two recipients of the 2015-16 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship. He...
Guertal receives TOCA award for column series in Golf Course Management magazine
Elizabeth Guertal, a professor in turfgrass and nutrient management, received a merit award from the Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association last week for her column series, Verdure. Her column appears monthly in Golf Course Management magazine. Guertal’s was...
Cures for what ails you
by JAMIE CREAMER What began in 2006 as a small-scale study to determine whether medicinal herbs had potential as a profitable alternative crop for Alabama growers is now a 4,200-square-foot garden boasting more than 60 species and varieties of plants that humans...
Auburn University Soil Judging Team wins 2015 national title
The Auburn University Soil Judging Team is No. 1 in the country after besting 21 other teams from universities across the country during the American Society of Agronomy’s 2015 National Collegiate Soils Contest April 18-24 at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
Brantley, DeVries to receive 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards
Two College of Agriculture faculty members are among the five individuals and two groups selected as recipients of Auburn’s 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards. The awards will be presented in a ceremony Wednesday, April 22, at 3:30 p.m. at Ag Heritage Park’s Farmers...
Hoyum named alumnus of the year
Dr. Raymond A. Hoyum of Alpharetta, Ga., was honored as the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science’s 2015 Alumnus of the Year at a ceremony April 16. Hoyum is a two-time graduate of the department, earning M.S. in agronomy in 1973 and his Ph.D. in agronomy in 1976.
The Market at Ag Heritage Park to open 2015 season May 14
AUBURN, Ala.—The Market at Ag Heritage Park, Auburn University’s open-air farmers market, will open its 2015 season Thursday, May 14, at 3 p.m. and will continue every Thursday, from 3 to 6 p.m., through Aug. 27. The market is located near the intersection of South...
Shannon wins honor for distance ed efforts
Dennis Shannon, a professor in Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, has been recognized by a national distance education coalition for his work in developing a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary online graduate degree program in...
Four ag faculty awarded promotion, tenure
Four College of Agriculture faculty members have been awarded promotion, tenure or both for 2015, Auburn University Provost Timothy Boosinger has announced. Advancing from the academic rank of associate professor to full professor are Kenneth Macklin in the Department...
Chen recognized for contributions to International Peanut Genome Project
Charles Chen, an associate professor and peanut breeder in the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, was recently recognized by the International Peanut Genome Initiative for his contributions to ongoing...