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Pest management solutions: Faculty and students receive regional recognition
Auburn University graduate students and one faculty member rose above and beyond for this year’s Southern Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Awards. For the first time, two Auburn doctoral candidates, Caitlyn Lawton and Rogan Tokach, were honored for their achievements...
Going Green: Blersch’s lab addresses crucial environmental work
By Amy Weaver Contrary to what the name might suggest, the work currently happening in the Green Infrastructure Lab at Auburn has nothing to do with green-colored roads or buildings. No Emerald City here. “Green infrastructure is an approach to managing water and...
Innovating solutions to agricultural challenges
A team of both doctoral and undergraduate biosystems engineering students is tackling the age-old problem of precise fertilizer application with cutting-edge drone technology. According to NASA, they’re tackling it well.
Decoding Dicamba
Auburn researchers help farmers adapt to EPA changes This year, major regulatory changes enacted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will affect farmers...
Developing high-performing genetic lines and hybrids for the catfish industry
Better breeding ability would make catfish farming more efficient and profitable The $437 million U.S. catfish industry is in need of better genetic and breeding...
Ph.D. graduate’s classification study is first of aphid-like insect in more than 100 years
A recent doctoral graduate in the College of Agriculture’s entomology program has completed the first scientific classification and identification study of a group of insects, phylloxerans – an insect similar to an aphid – that has been undertaken in more than a century.
USDA chief scientist, Auburn alum presents Fall York Lecture Sept. 26
The Auburn University College of Agriculture’s E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer Series will present U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Undersecretary Scott Hutchins as the Fall 2019 York Lecturer Thursday, Sept. 26, in Auburn. In the lecture, set for 4 p.m. in the...
Dozier new Department of Poultry Science head at Auburn
Bill Dozier new poultry science department head, Miller Center executive director at Auburn University, AL
Giambrone wins poultry disease research award
Auburn poultry scientist Joe Giambrone receives high honor for poultry disease research
For the love of mud: as Nat Geo Explorer, Auburn’s Waters probes polluted lake’s past through sediment
As Nat Geo Explorer, Auburn’s Waters probes polluted lake’s past through sediment
Crop, soil sciences senior claims four first-place Weed Olympics wins
Auburn university crop & soil sciences undergrad claims four first-place wins in WSSA’s 2019 WeedOlympics
Alfa honors Mullenix, Majumdar for extension work
Auburn extension specialists Kim Mullenix & Ayanava Majumdar were honored for their work at the Alabama Farmers Federation Aug. 1.
Marel donates poultry processing system to Auburn’s Miller Center
Marel Poultry donates a processing system to Auburn University’s Miller Center in Alabama, USA. Essential to poultry processing research.
Auburn’s Bilgili wins 2019 Distinguished Poultry Career Award
Auburn poultry scientist Sarge Bilgili accepts 2019 Poultry Science Association Distinguished Poultry Industry Career Award
Gardening as cancer intervention: APT highlights innovative Harvest for Health program Aug. 5
Horticultural experts at Auburn University are part of an innovative health study that uses gardening as a cancer intervention.
The tools for fighting cancer: how gardening has become a wellness practice
The tools for fighting cancer: how gardening has become a wellness practice
Biosystems engineering represented well at ASABE international meeting
Biosystems engineering represented well at ASABE international meeting
Beneficial bacteria eyed as alternative to nitrogen on bermudagrass hay
Auburn University researchers are examining the use of beneficial bacteria as an alternative to nitrogen on bermuda grass hay.
Horticulture department hosts workshop for Alabama agriscience teachers
Horticulture department hosts workshop for Alabama agriscience teachers at Auburn
Auburn researcher working to improve cattle fertility
Fernando Biase, assistant professor in the College of Agriculture’s Department of Animal Sciences, is leading a project that will create a basis of knowledge allowing for the development of strategies to improve fertility in beef cattle.
Survey: U.S. beekeepers report record rate of colony loss over 2018-19 winter
Beekeepers across the U.S. lost 40.7% of their managed honey bee colonies from April 1, 2018, to April 1, 2019, and experienced the highest rate of winter loss in 13 years, preliminary results of the annual nationwide colony loss survey show.
Survey endorses local branding of Alabama specialty crops
Would you be more willing to buy a bag of sweet potatoes, basket of peaches or a jar of honey if you knew from the label that it was grown in Alabama?
Auburn ag economists discuss floods, U.S. corn crop
Henry Kinnucan and Brittney Goodrich, agricultural economists in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture, comment on the heavy rain and floods affecting U.S. corn farmers, especially in the Midwest, who face delayed planting. Consumers also face rising grocery and...
Ag economists discuss U.S. corn crop
Henry Kinnucan and Brittney Goodrich, agricultural economists in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture, comment on the heavy rain and floods affecting U.S. corn farmers, especially in the Midwest, who face delayed planting. Consumers also face rising grocery and ethanol prices as a result of the delayed planting.
A fertile imagination: abundant creative energy fuels medical entomologist’s passions for advanced biotechnology fantasy art
“The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?”—Seneca, first-century Roman Stoic philosopher
Pilgrim’s Classroom honors company for $500,000 Miller Poultry Center gift
A teaching space inside the flagship building at Auburn University’s Charles C. Miller Jr. Poultry Research and Education Center is now the Pilgrim’s Education Classroom. The university’s Board of Trustees approved the designation at its June 7 meeting in Auburn in...
Ph.D. graduate’s classification study is first of aphid-like insect in more than 100 years
A recent doctoral graduate in the College of Agriculture’s entomology program has completed the first scientific classification and identification study of a group of insects, phylloxerans – an insect similar to an aphid – that has been undertaken in more than a century.
USDA chief scientist, Auburn alum presents Fall York Lecture Sept. 26
The Auburn University College of Agriculture’s E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer Series will present U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Undersecretary Scott Hutchins as the Fall 2019 York Lecturer Thursday, Sept. 26, in Auburn. In the lecture, set for 4 p.m. in the...
Dozier new Department of Poultry Science head at Auburn
Bill Dozier new poultry science department head, Miller Center executive director at Auburn University, AL
Giambrone wins poultry disease research award
Auburn poultry scientist Joe Giambrone receives high honor for poultry disease research
For the love of mud: as Nat Geo Explorer, Auburn’s Waters probes polluted lake’s past through sediment
As Nat Geo Explorer, Auburn’s Waters probes polluted lake’s past through sediment
Crop, soil sciences senior claims four first-place Weed Olympics wins
Auburn university crop & soil sciences undergrad claims four first-place wins in WSSA’s 2019 WeedOlympics
Alfa honors Mullenix, Majumdar for extension work
Auburn extension specialists Kim Mullenix & Ayanava Majumdar were honored for their work at the Alabama Farmers Federation Aug. 1.
Marel donates poultry processing system to Auburn’s Miller Center
Marel Poultry donates a processing system to Auburn University’s Miller Center in Alabama, USA. Essential to poultry processing research.
Auburn’s Bilgili wins 2019 Distinguished Poultry Career Award
Auburn poultry scientist Sarge Bilgili accepts 2019 Poultry Science Association Distinguished Poultry Industry Career Award
Gardening as cancer intervention: APT highlights innovative Harvest for Health program Aug. 5
Horticultural experts at Auburn University are part of an innovative health study that uses gardening as a cancer intervention.
The tools for fighting cancer: how gardening has become a wellness practice
The tools for fighting cancer: how gardening has become a wellness practice
Biosystems engineering represented well at ASABE international meeting
Biosystems engineering represented well at ASABE international meeting
Beneficial bacteria eyed as alternative to nitrogen on bermudagrass hay
Auburn University researchers are examining the use of beneficial bacteria as an alternative to nitrogen on bermuda grass hay.
Horticulture department hosts workshop for Alabama agriscience teachers
Horticulture department hosts workshop for Alabama agriscience teachers at Auburn
Auburn researcher working to improve cattle fertility
Fernando Biase, assistant professor in the College of Agriculture’s Department of Animal Sciences, is leading a project that will create a basis of knowledge allowing for the development of strategies to improve fertility in beef cattle.
Survey: U.S. beekeepers report record rate of colony loss over 2018-19 winter
Beekeepers across the U.S. lost 40.7% of their managed honey bee colonies from April 1, 2018, to April 1, 2019, and experienced the highest rate of winter loss in 13 years, preliminary results of the annual nationwide colony loss survey show.
Survey endorses local branding of Alabama specialty crops
Would you be more willing to buy a bag of sweet potatoes, basket of peaches or a jar of honey if you knew from the label that it was grown in Alabama?
Auburn ag economists discuss floods, U.S. corn crop
Henry Kinnucan and Brittney Goodrich, agricultural economists in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture, comment on the heavy rain and floods affecting U.S. corn farmers, especially in the Midwest, who face delayed planting. Consumers also face rising grocery and...
Ag economists discuss U.S. corn crop
Henry Kinnucan and Brittney Goodrich, agricultural economists in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture, comment on the heavy rain and floods affecting U.S. corn farmers, especially in the Midwest, who face delayed planting. Consumers also face rising grocery and ethanol prices as a result of the delayed planting.
A fertile imagination: abundant creative energy fuels medical entomologist’s passions for advanced biotechnology fantasy art
“The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?”—Seneca, first-century Roman Stoic philosopher
Pilgrim’s Classroom honors company for $500,000 Miller Poultry Center gift
A teaching space inside the flagship building at Auburn University’s Charles C. Miller Jr. Poultry Research and Education Center is now the Pilgrim’s Education Classroom. The university’s Board of Trustees approved the designation at its June 7 meeting in Auburn in...