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Researchers study potential savings from reducing time on feed for weaned pigs
Research made possible by $300,000 USDA-NIFA grant The scale of pork production in the U. S. is such that reducing the average pig’s time on feed by just one day can put $76 million back into pork producers’ pockets. Animal scientists at Auburn University are...
Networking in action: poultry science students explore Aviagen’s research center
Networking with industry professionals is a crucial step to success for any undergraduate student. It is especially important for students studying poultry science at Auburn University, as the broiler industry is Alabama’s top agricultural commodity. Making...
Auburn Fisheries facilities help farmers battling supersized catfish
Many farmers are raising a blue catfish and channel catfish hybrid, which makes up half of all catfish harvested in the U.S., so the problems surrounding their rapid growth are widespread. Both small- and large-scale farmers aim to harvest fish that are “market size,” between one and a quarter and four pounds. […]
Johnston, Touchette receive summer 2024 graduation honors
Two soon-to-be alumni of the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology received the highest honors the...
Auburn works to bring bold breakthroughs in blueberry research
Blueberries, a superfood rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and essential nutrients, are widely celebrated during July for National Blueberry Month. Recognizing the potential within these small yet mighty fruits, researchers at Auburn University work to promote the positive health benefits of blueberries.
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...
Berry wins 2015 poultry science teaching award
Wallace Berry, associate professor in the Department of Poultry Science at Auburn, received the 2015 Novus International Inc. Teaching Award during the Poultry Science Association’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in late July.The association established the...
Back to the grind
by JAMIE CREAMER Auburn study zeroes in on salmonella in ground poultry If the two-year salmonella study that Auburn University poultry scientist Ken Macklin launched in January were a sentence, you’d need two sheets of notebook paper to diagram it. It’s that complex....
'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...
A senior’s Singapore summer
interview by NATHAN KELLY and JADEN BROWN Horses are nothing new to Ellen Rankins, a senior in equine science from Cusseta, Alabama. In fact, she’s spent a healthy portion of her life around the beloved creatures. But the horses themselves are only a part of Rankins’...
Mullenix, husband runners-up in federation competition
Kim Mullenix, assistant professor and Extension specialist in the Department of Animal Sciences at Auburn, and husband Daniel were named second runners-up in the Alabama Farmers Federation’s 2015 Excellence in Agriculture competition. Winners were announced during the...
Ashwood wins award for best journal article
Loka Ashwood, a rural sociologist who joined the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn in June as assistant professor, was lead author on an article that has been named the most outstanding to run in the scholarly journal Rural Sociology...
Society to honor Taylor with 2015 leadership award
Steve Taylor, professor and head of the Department of Biosystems Engineering and director of the Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts at Auburn University, will receive the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers’ 2015 James R. and Karen A. Gilley...
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...
Appel named interim dean for the College of Agriculture and interim director for AAES
Auburn University professor, researcher, former department chair, interim associate dean for research and interim assistant director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) Arthur Appel has been named interim dean for College of Agriculture and interim...
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...
Farming for the future
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON When she was asked to join some of the world’s best-known senior scientists as a presenter at the 2012 gathering of the World Aquaculture Society, Noe Noe Lwin stole the show. Then just 31 years old, the teacher-turned-entrepreneur captivated...
‘A Hero’s Walk’
Ag alum chronicles father’s WWII journey in fascinating new book by JAMIE CREAMER Funny how you can live with someone your whole life and never really know the person. For Auburn College of Agriculture alum Mike Darnell (’79, agricultural business and economics), it...
2015 Beef Cattle Conference set for Aug. 8 at Auburn
Auburn University's Department of Animal Sciences will host the 2015 Beef Cattle Conference Saturday, Aug. 8, at Ham Wilson Livestock Arena and other campus facilities. This year’s one-day conference will follow the theme "Practical Concepts for the Cow-Calf Producer"...
Auburn fisheries grad student awarded marine policy fellowship
Matt Womble, a master’s student in Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, has been named a 2016 Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow and will spend next year in Washington, D.C., learning how science is translated into...
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.
Feeling their pain
By Jamie Creamer It was lunchtime in Nepal, and for that, David Rouse is most thankful. He tries not to dwell on the what-ifs. Because what if he, fellow Auburn University fisheries expert Dave Cline and their companions had not stopped for a lunch break at the small...
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.
Biosystems engineering honored for excellence in education
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University’s Department of Biosystems Engineering has been selected to receive the 2015 University Senate Departmental Award for Excellence in Education, an honor that carries with it a $30,000 grant that will be administered in three yearly...
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...
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...
Berry wins 2015 poultry science teaching award
Wallace Berry, associate professor in the Department of Poultry Science at Auburn, received the 2015 Novus International Inc. Teaching Award during the Poultry Science Association’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in late July.The association established the...
Back to the grind
by JAMIE CREAMER Auburn study zeroes in on salmonella in ground poultry If the two-year salmonella study that Auburn University poultry scientist Ken Macklin launched in January were a sentence, you’d need two sheets of notebook paper to diagram it. It’s that complex....
'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...
A senior’s Singapore summer
interview by NATHAN KELLY and JADEN BROWN Horses are nothing new to Ellen Rankins, a senior in equine science from Cusseta, Alabama. In fact, she’s spent a healthy portion of her life around the beloved creatures. But the horses themselves are only a part of Rankins’...
Mullenix, husband runners-up in federation competition
Kim Mullenix, assistant professor and Extension specialist in the Department of Animal Sciences at Auburn, and husband Daniel were named second runners-up in the Alabama Farmers Federation’s 2015 Excellence in Agriculture competition. Winners were announced during the...
Ashwood wins award for best journal article
Loka Ashwood, a rural sociologist who joined the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn in June as assistant professor, was lead author on an article that has been named the most outstanding to run in the scholarly journal Rural Sociology...
Society to honor Taylor with 2015 leadership award
Steve Taylor, professor and head of the Department of Biosystems Engineering and director of the Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts at Auburn University, will receive the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers’ 2015 James R. and Karen A. Gilley...
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...
Appel named interim dean for the College of Agriculture and interim director for AAES
Auburn University professor, researcher, former department chair, interim associate dean for research and interim assistant director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) Arthur Appel has been named interim dean for College of Agriculture and interim...
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...
Farming for the future
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON When she was asked to join some of the world’s best-known senior scientists as a presenter at the 2012 gathering of the World Aquaculture Society, Noe Noe Lwin stole the show. Then just 31 years old, the teacher-turned-entrepreneur captivated...
‘A Hero’s Walk’
Ag alum chronicles father’s WWII journey in fascinating new book by JAMIE CREAMER Funny how you can live with someone your whole life and never really know the person. For Auburn College of Agriculture alum Mike Darnell (’79, agricultural business and economics), it...
2015 Beef Cattle Conference set for Aug. 8 at Auburn
Auburn University's Department of Animal Sciences will host the 2015 Beef Cattle Conference Saturday, Aug. 8, at Ham Wilson Livestock Arena and other campus facilities. This year’s one-day conference will follow the theme "Practical Concepts for the Cow-Calf Producer"...
Auburn fisheries grad student awarded marine policy fellowship
Matt Womble, a master’s student in Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, has been named a 2016 Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow and will spend next year in Washington, D.C., learning how science is translated into...
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.
Feeling their pain
By Jamie Creamer It was lunchtime in Nepal, and for that, David Rouse is most thankful. He tries not to dwell on the what-ifs. Because what if he, fellow Auburn University fisheries expert Dave Cline and their companions had not stopped for a lunch break at the small...
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.
Biosystems engineering honored for excellence in education
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University’s Department of Biosystems Engineering has been selected to receive the 2015 University Senate Departmental Award for Excellence in Education, an honor that carries with it a $30,000 grant that will be administered in three yearly...
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...