by Josh Woods | May 27, 2020 | News
By Office of Agricultural Communications and Marketing / May 27, 2020 11:21:05 AM In early March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Alabama, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, like Auburn University and other agencies and businesses, transitioned to an alternative...
by Paul Hollis | May 27, 2020 | Research
By Paul Hollis / May 27, 2020 10:49:23 AM Auburn University’s first foray into the peanut breeding business appears to be a success, with AU-NPL 17 showing promise in multiple trials as a variety that can take hits from major diseases and still produce a high-yielding...
by Kristen Bowman | May 26, 2020 | Feature
By Kristen Bowman / May 26, 2020 10:33:16 AM Prospective Students, Feature, Events The dorms, classrooms, dining halls, auditoriums, offices and fields may all be empty, but the College of Agriculture at Auburn University is still giving live tours. The outbreak of...
by Kristen Bowman | May 12, 2020 | News
By Kristen Bowman / May 12, 2020 2:42:51 PM News Graduate students in the College of Agriculture received top honors from the Graduate School and the Graduate Student Council this spring. “We are extremely proud of our outstanding graduate students in the College of...
by Paul Hollis | Apr 24, 2020 | Feature
Even during a worldwide pandemic, faculty, staff and students in Auburn’s College of Agriculture and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) continue fulfilling their roles in providing an abundant and safe food supply to a nation in crisis. “We’ve made the...
by Paul Hollis | Apr 14, 2020 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, News
By Paul Hollis / Apr 14, 2020 1:50:06 PM Auburn University, Faculty, College of Agriculture, News For the first time in the history of Auburn’s College of Agriculture, two faculty members have been selected for the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early...
by Josh Woods | Mar 31, 2020 | Alumni Stories, Feature
Chastity Westry is no slacker. The ’97 agricultural business and economics alumna is one busy lady who wears many titles: billion-dollar sales executive, mentor, philanthropist, wife, mother of an active teenager and now third-year law student. Also add to the list a...
by Josh Woods | Mar 30, 2020 | News
By Joshua Woods / Mar 30, 2020 11:41:22 AM News While Auburn University’s College of Agriculture currently cannot host prospective students due to the COVID-19 outbreak, students are now visiting through live virtual tours and information sessions. Live visits are...
by Josh Woods | Mar 27, 2020 | COA Administration, Development, News
By Joshua Woods / Mar 27, 2020 3:09:38 PM News Veteran gift planning expert Phillip Cowart was recently named the College of Agriculture’s director of development. As director, Cowart will lead college efforts to raise private funds for research, facilities,...
by Paul Hollis | Mar 27, 2020 | News, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Paul Hollis / Mar 27, 2020 10:21:23 AM News Ash Bullard, a professor of parasitology and taxonomy in the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences has been named a recipient of the Henry Baldwin Ward Medal,...
by Josh Woods | Mar 17, 2020 | News
Effective late yesterday, Auburn University has adopted a new operational model in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus among our university family and the communities around us. This extraordinary effort is made solely with the interest of everyone’s...
by Paul Hollis | Mar 17, 2020 | News
By Paul Patterson / Mar 17, 2020 11:53:23 AM News Effective late March 16, Auburn University has adopted a new operational model in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus among our university family and the communities around us. This extraordinary effort...
by Josh Woods | Feb 28, 2020 | Alumni Stories, Donor Impact Stories, Feature, Poultry Science
By Meghan McDonald / Feb 28, 2020 9:34:04 AM Feature Ray Hilburn (’78), associate director of the Alabama Poultry and Egg Association, began mentoring College of Agriculture students eight years ago. “I decided to participate to give back to the College of Agriculture...
by Margaret Smith | Feb 24, 2020 | News
By Maggie Smith / Feb 24, 2020 10:37:06 AM News Auburn University’s Women in Agriculture will host its 2020 Spring Luncheon Monday, April 6, in Auburn, and is inviting all women involved in or associated with agriculture at any level to attend the luncheon. The...
by Margaret Smith | Feb 19, 2020 | Feature, Student Spotlight
By Maggie Smith / Feb 19, 2020 9:25:57 AM Feature At first glance, most people probably wouldn’t think agricultural communications and theatre have anything in common. But Zac Moss, an Auburn University junior from Huntsville who is majoring in both fields, says...
by Margaret Smith | Feb 10, 2020 | Horticulture, News
For the second year in a row, the Auburn University Horticulture Club took home the Outstanding Club Award at the Southern Region of the American Society of Horticultural Sciences’ annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. Six Auburn students attended the conference and...
by Margaret Smith | Feb 5, 2020 | News
By Maggie Smith / Feb 5, 2020 9:35:39 AM News The Auburn University College of Agriculture recently hosted a graduate student recruiting fair for the first time in recent years. “The graduate student recruiting fair was organized as part of our effort to advance...
by Paul Hollis | Feb 3, 2020 | News
By Paul Hollis / Feb 3, 2020 2:07:14 PM College of Agriculture, News, Events AUBURN, Ala.—Cow-calf producers and members of the Alabama Veterinary Medical Association across the state will gather to gain valuable insight on how to be more successful in the beef cattle...
by Margaret Smith | Jan 31, 2020 | Horticulture, News
The Department of Horticulture is set to receive 100 percent of the funds donated to the College of Agriculture on this year’s Tiger Giving Day, set for Feb. 19. The funds will be used to support new on-campus hydroponic container gardens. These high-tech gardens will...
by Margaret Smith | Jan 29, 2020 | Feature, Poultry Science
By Maggie Smith / Jan 29, 2020 10:00:23 AM News Twenty-one Department of Poultry Science students presented their research findings at the International Poultry Scientific Forum and American Feed Industry Association’s Pet Food Conference earlier this week in Atlanta....
by Margaret Smith | Jan 28, 2020 | Animal Sciences, News
By Maggie Smith / Jan 28, 2020 9:24:29 AM News Kim Mullenix, associate professor of animal sciences and beef extension specialist, was recently awarded the Outstanding Young Animal Scientist Award – Education by the Southern Section of the American Society of...
