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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 college can bestow upon graduates ahead of commencement ceremonies on Saturday, Aug. 3. Angela Touchette...

National survey indicates highest bee colony losses in 14 years

The annual U.S. Beekeeping Survey, designed and administered by Auburn University and Apiary Inspectors of America, indicates the highest colony losses since the 2010-11 beekeeping season, when colony loss rates were first determined. U.S. beekeepers lost an estimated...
Society to honor Taylor with 2015 leadership award

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...

Society to honor Taylor with 2015 leadership award

‘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"...

College of Agriculture, Cuba sign academic exchange treaty

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

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.

Society to honor Taylor with 2015 leadership award

To market, to market

by NATHAN KELLY One of the best kept secrets of summer barbecues in Auburn is at the corner of Wire Road and Shug Jordan Parkway: the Auburn University Lambert-Powell Meats Laboratory. For students majoring in animal sciences, the meats lab is a place to learn,...

Society to honor Taylor with 2015 leadership award

Ecosystems by design

by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Growing up in India’s water-scarce environment, Auburn University biosystems engineering professor Puneet Srivastava understood from an early age the importance of clean water. It was his graduate school experience studying ecosystems,...

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...

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