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Peanut breeding making strides
Auburn University’s peanut breeding program is still in its infancy by most standards. It was begun in 2012, compared to similar programs at the University of Florida and University of Georgia that were begun in 1928 and 1938, respectively. And plant breeding, by its...
Beckmann receives NSF CAREER Award
John Beckmann, assistant professor of medical-veterinary entomology and biotechnology in the Auburn University College of Agriculture, recently received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Presented by the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program, the...
Auburn researchers study experiences of women in farming
Research made possible by $650,000 USDA-NIFA grant The number of farms in the U.S. operated by women has grown 27% in recent years. Yet, despite their growing number...
$3.9 million grant to fund research for enhanced honey bee health
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture recently awarded a $3.9 million, five-year grant to a team of researchers to enhance honey bee health for...
Research examines feasibility of hydroponic strawberry production
Fresh Alabama strawberries in November, December, January and February? It’s not as far-fetched as it may sound. In fact, research taking place at the Auburn University...
College of Ag faculty, students garner honors
AUBURN, Ala.— Five Auburn University College of Agriculture faculty have been appointed or reappointed to professorships, and several faculty and students in the college have earned high honors for their outstanding accomplishments during the 2012-13 academic year....
Study investigates chemical’s effects on mussel populations
by JAMIE CREAMER Alabama is home to the most diverse freshwater mussel population in all of North America, with 180 known species dwelling or having once dwelled in the state’s rivers and streams. But in recent decades, their numbers have plummeted as a result of...
Don't let them bite
Scientists investigating what makes bedbugs tick by JAMIE CREAMER The first thing that Zach DeVries does when he opens the door to a new hotel room is to put his luggage in the bathtub. “I’m not being paranoid,” DeVries says. “I’m being cautious.” It is a caution...
Auburn to host inaugural SEC Equestrian Championship March 29-30
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University will host the first-ever Southeastern Conference equestrian championship Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30, at the Auburn University Horse Center on Wire Road. All four SEC equestrian programs—Auburn, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas...
Horticulture's Eakes wins national top educator honors
AUBURN, Ala.—Joseph Eakes, the Jimmy and Chris Pursell Professor of Horticulture, has been named the 2013 Professional Landcare Network, or PLANET, Academic Excellence Foundation Outstanding Educator of the Year. The award, which goes to a professor who dedicates his...
$4.8 million grant will enhance safety of local foods
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...
Licensing deal moves AU-patented kiwifruit into marketplace
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...
For the record
Twins part of college's largest graduating class by WENDY REED Even before the 123 College of Agriculture seniors set to graduate this coming May begin making their mark through work and careers, they will have made history as part of the college’s largest graduating...
Safe and secure
$4.8 million grant will enhance safety of local foods by JAMIE CREAMER 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...
Taking the lead
Auburn ag alum wins farmers federation presidency by JAMIE CREAMER On Dec. 3, 2012, College of Agriculture alumnus and fifth-generation Chilton County farmer Jimmy Parnell eked out a victory to become president of the Alabama Farmers Federation and, subsequently,...
Ag, forestry dominate state's economy, study shows
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...
Research reveals secret lives of mole crickets
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....
Lord Kwakye Ameyaw
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...
College of Ag, AAES honor top faculty, staff
AUBURN, Ala.— Twenty College of Agriculture/Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station scientists who landed a combined $11.4 million-plus in grants and contracts over the course of a year were honored as 2012 Grantsmanship Award winners and 21 other faculty and staff...
Production under way at Auburn's new $7.1 million feed mill
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University’s new $7.1 million Poultry and Animal Nutrition Center, a state-of-the-art academic and research feed production facility located on a 50-acre site north of the main campus, officially opened Friday, Nov. 16, with a ribbon-cutting...
Auburn ag economist Bill Hardy granted emeritus status posthumously
AUBURN, Ala.—The late William E. “Bill” Hardy Jr., a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn University for almost 39 years, has been posthumously awarded the status of professor emeritus. The College of Agriculture...
Sibley to take reins as Department of Horticulture head
AUBURN, Ala.—Jeff Sibley, an Auburn University alumnus and faculty member, has been named head of the Department of Horticulture at Auburn, effective Nov. 1. Sibley, who grew up in northwest Alabama’s Mount Hope community and was a part of a family nursery and turf...
AU technology could revolutionize rendering industry
AUBURN, Ala. — A patented Auburn University–developed process that cleanly converts inedible waste from the slaughter of animals into marketable products is making its commercial debut this summer with the opening of Alabama Protein Products LLC at Kyser Family Farms,...
Survey of coastal seafood, restaurant industries under way
AUBURN, Ala. — Seafood fishers, processors and wholesalers as well as seafood restaurant chefs and owners are the focus of a survey under way along the Alabama-Mississippi Gulf Coast aimed at evaluating how those involved in the seafood supply chain are faring after...
Corpulent wooly pig possible key to human disease prevention
AUBURN Ala.—A curly-haired, morbidly obese, genetically primitive breed of Hungarian pig that until recently was on the brink of extinction could be key to the eventual prevention of diabetes and heart disease in humans, Auburn University researchers contend. The...
Partridge Memorial Fishing Tourney set for May 5
AUBURN—The sixth annual David Partridge Memorial Big Bass Tournament will be held Saturday, May 5, beginning at 12:30 p.m. at Auburn University’s North Station research ponds near the Auburn campus. Tournament proceeds go to the David Partridge Memorial Endowment at...
College of Ag faculty, students garner honors
AUBURN, Ala.— Five Auburn University College of Agriculture faculty have been appointed or reappointed to professorships, and several faculty and students in the college have earned high honors for their outstanding accomplishments during the 2012-13 academic year....
Study investigates chemical’s effects on mussel populations
by JAMIE CREAMER Alabama is home to the most diverse freshwater mussel population in all of North America, with 180 known species dwelling or having once dwelled in the state’s rivers and streams. But in recent decades, their numbers have plummeted as a result of...
Don't let them bite
Scientists investigating what makes bedbugs tick by JAMIE CREAMER The first thing that Zach DeVries does when he opens the door to a new hotel room is to put his luggage in the bathtub. “I’m not being paranoid,” DeVries says. “I’m being cautious.” It is a caution...
Auburn to host inaugural SEC Equestrian Championship March 29-30
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University will host the first-ever Southeastern Conference equestrian championship Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30, at the Auburn University Horse Center on Wire Road. All four SEC equestrian programs—Auburn, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas...
Horticulture's Eakes wins national top educator honors
AUBURN, Ala.—Joseph Eakes, the Jimmy and Chris Pursell Professor of Horticulture, has been named the 2013 Professional Landcare Network, or PLANET, Academic Excellence Foundation Outstanding Educator of the Year. The award, which goes to a professor who dedicates his...
$4.8 million grant will enhance safety of local foods
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...
Licensing deal moves AU-patented kiwifruit into marketplace
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...
For the record
Twins part of college's largest graduating class by WENDY REED Even before the 123 College of Agriculture seniors set to graduate this coming May begin making their mark through work and careers, they will have made history as part of the college’s largest graduating...
Safe and secure
$4.8 million grant will enhance safety of local foods by JAMIE CREAMER 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...
Taking the lead
Auburn ag alum wins farmers federation presidency by JAMIE CREAMER On Dec. 3, 2012, College of Agriculture alumnus and fifth-generation Chilton County farmer Jimmy Parnell eked out a victory to become president of the Alabama Farmers Federation and, subsequently,...
Ag, forestry dominate state's economy, study shows
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...
Research reveals secret lives of mole crickets
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....
Lord Kwakye Ameyaw
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...
College of Ag, AAES honor top faculty, staff
AUBURN, Ala.— Twenty College of Agriculture/Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station scientists who landed a combined $11.4 million-plus in grants and contracts over the course of a year were honored as 2012 Grantsmanship Award winners and 21 other faculty and staff...
Production under way at Auburn's new $7.1 million feed mill
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University’s new $7.1 million Poultry and Animal Nutrition Center, a state-of-the-art academic and research feed production facility located on a 50-acre site north of the main campus, officially opened Friday, Nov. 16, with a ribbon-cutting...
Auburn ag economist Bill Hardy granted emeritus status posthumously
AUBURN, Ala.—The late William E. “Bill” Hardy Jr., a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn University for almost 39 years, has been posthumously awarded the status of professor emeritus. The College of Agriculture...
Sibley to take reins as Department of Horticulture head
AUBURN, Ala.—Jeff Sibley, an Auburn University alumnus and faculty member, has been named head of the Department of Horticulture at Auburn, effective Nov. 1. Sibley, who grew up in northwest Alabama’s Mount Hope community and was a part of a family nursery and turf...
AU technology could revolutionize rendering industry
AUBURN, Ala. — A patented Auburn University–developed process that cleanly converts inedible waste from the slaughter of animals into marketable products is making its commercial debut this summer with the opening of Alabama Protein Products LLC at Kyser Family Farms,...
Survey of coastal seafood, restaurant industries under way
AUBURN, Ala. — Seafood fishers, processors and wholesalers as well as seafood restaurant chefs and owners are the focus of a survey under way along the Alabama-Mississippi Gulf Coast aimed at evaluating how those involved in the seafood supply chain are faring after...
Corpulent wooly pig possible key to human disease prevention
AUBURN Ala.—A curly-haired, morbidly obese, genetically primitive breed of Hungarian pig that until recently was on the brink of extinction could be key to the eventual prevention of diabetes and heart disease in humans, Auburn University researchers contend. The...
Partridge Memorial Fishing Tourney set for May 5
AUBURN—The sixth annual David Partridge Memorial Big Bass Tournament will be held Saturday, May 5, beginning at 12:30 p.m. at Auburn University’s North Station research ponds near the Auburn campus. Tournament proceeds go to the David Partridge Memorial Endowment at...