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Will Rich selected spring 2025 student marshal
Advises future ag students to get involved The spring 2025 graduation marshal for the Auburn University College of Agriculture is a familiar face around Comer Hall. Will Rich was selected from among the agriculture spring graduates to represent the college at the...
Kumar awarded LEAP Summer Momentum Fellowship
Sudhanshu Kumar, a Ph.D. student in the Hydroclimate Research Group within the Department of Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, has been selected for the 2025 LEAP Summer Momentum Fellowship — a prestigious and highly competitive opportunity for doctoral...
Applied biotechnology student receives prestigious internship
Auburn University College of Agriculture student Leah Johnson received a highly competitive collegiate internship with HudsonAlpha, a premier institute for...
Three students receive 2025 Comer Awards
Hosted by the College of Sciences and Mathematics, in collaboration with the College of Agriculture, this year’s Comer Awards were presented to three graduating Auburn University students….
Researchers’ report informs governor’s strategic plan
Alabama’s $123 billion agriculture industry has identified land loss, profitability and transportation infrastructure among its most pressing challenges in a recent...
Integrated research looks at human side of science
Left to right, Denis Nadolnyak, Ruiqing Miao and Michele Worosz, all of the College of Agriculture’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, are members of research teams that received grants from the National Science Foundation.
Dunham, Muntifering merit prestigious 2019 Faculty Awards at Auburn
College of Ag veterans Rex Dunham, Russ Muntifering named 2019 Faculty Award recipients at Auburn University.
College of Ag alumni professor co-authors book examining tall fescue
College of Agriculture, Auburn University, Alabama, alumni professor co-authors book examining tall fescue.
Horticulture’s Kessler makes a comeback, lives to ride again
Auburn horticulture’s Kessler recovers from April 13 near-fatal bike wreck, returns for fall semester.
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?
Integrated research looks at human side of science
Left to right, Denis Nadolnyak, Ruiqing Miao and Michele Worosz, all of the College of Agriculture’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, are members of research teams that received grants from the National Science Foundation.
Dunham, Muntifering merit prestigious 2019 Faculty Awards at Auburn
College of Ag veterans Rex Dunham, Russ Muntifering named 2019 Faculty Award recipients at Auburn University.
College of Ag alumni professor co-authors book examining tall fescue
College of Agriculture, Auburn University, Alabama, alumni professor co-authors book examining tall fescue.
Horticulture’s Kessler makes a comeback, lives to ride again
Auburn horticulture’s Kessler recovers from April 13 near-fatal bike wreck, returns for fall semester.
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?