by Laura Cauthen | Aug 12, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature, Outreach
By Laura Cauthen / Aug 12, 2019 9:34:09 AM Feature “Greeting Explorers!” reads the salutation as Matt Waters, Auburn environmental science assistant professor, opens his email from the National Geographic Society. Getting these emails, Waters said, is one of the fun...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 8, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Student Spotlight
Eli Russell, a senior in the College of Agriculture’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, brought home four first-place awards from the Weed Science Society of America’s 2019 National WeedOlympics, held recently at the University of Illinois at...
by Josh Woods | Aug 2, 2019 | Animal Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, News
By Joshua Woods / Aug 2, 2019 4:42:28 PM News The Alabama Farmers Federation honored two Auburn University and Alabama Cooperative Extension System professionals for work tangibly affecting farmers and agriculture with inaugural Alfa Awards, presented before hundreds...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 2, 2019 | Donor Impact Stories, News, Poultry Science, Research
By Jamie Creamer / Aug 2, 2019 8:51:30 AM News AUBURN, Ala.—A gift to Auburn University’s College of Agriculture from the world’s leading provider of innovative poultry processing systems will significantly advance teaching, research and outreach capabilities at the...
by Josh Woods | Aug 1, 2019 | E.T. York Lecturer Series, News
By Joshua Woods / Aug 31, 2019 5:36:03 PM News, Events Auburn University’s College of Agriculture will host Scott Hutchins, deputy under secretary for the USDA’s research, education and economics mission area, as speaker for its E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer Series...
by Jamie Creamer | Jul 30, 2019 | News, Poultry Science
By Jamie Creamer / Jul 30, 2019 4:45:21 PM News, Poultry Science Sacit “Sarge” Bilgili, interim head of the Department of Poultry Science at Auburn University, is the 2019 recipient of the Poultry Science Association Distinguished Poultry Industry Career Award,...
by Margaret Smith | Jul 29, 2019 | Horticulture, News
By Maggie Smith / Jul 29, 2019 3:33:23 PM News When Alabama Public Television airs the seventh episode in its “Spotlight on Agriculture” series Aug. 5 at 9 p.m. CDT, it will place the spotlight on a cancer intervention program that has changed the lives of hundreds of...
by Paul Hollis | Jul 29, 2019 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, News, Research
By Paul Hollis / Jul 29, 2019 1:53:18 PM Feature As agricultural research dollars become increasingly scarce, it’s more important than ever that funded projects provide timely solutions to real-world problems. That’s why the proposals approved for Auburn University’s...
by Margaret Smith | Jul 25, 2019 | News, Research
By Maggie Smith / Jul 25, 2019 11:57:56 AM News Auburn College of Agriculture alumnus Scott Hutchins, deputy under secretary for USDA’s research, education and economics mission area, highlighted Auburn University research when he testified before the U.S. Senate...
by Josh Woods | Jul 18, 2019 | Feature, Horticulture
By Joshua Woods / Jul 18, 2019 10:32:40 AM Feature Debbie Murphy doesn’t consider herself a farmer. An accountant for Auburn University Facilities Management by day, she spends evenings and weekends maintaining her private home orchard, along with a 60-by-60-foot...
by Margaret Smith | Jul 18, 2019 | Biosystems Engineering, News
By Maggie Smith / Jul 18, 2019 9:02:26 AM News Seven Auburn Department of Biosystems Engineering faculty members and students won awards at the 2019 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers international meeting in Boston recently. Puneet Srivastava,...
by Paul Hollis | Jul 1, 2019 | Animal Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Feature, Research
By Paul Hollis / Jul 1, 2019 4:40:55 PM Feature Researchers and extension specialists in Auburn’s College of Agriculture are joining forces on a project that could provide a fertilizer alternative to Alabama livestock producers currently using synthetic nitrogen on...
by Margaret Smith | Jun 26, 2019 | Horticulture, News
By Maggie Smith / Jun 26, 2019 10:39:04 AM News The College of Agriculture’s Department of Horticulture recently hosted a greenhouse management short course for Alabama agriscience teachers. The three-day workshop taught the teachers how to manage and grow greenhouse...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 21, 2019 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Feature, Research
By Paul Hollis While cattle production represents a $2.5 billion industry in Alabama, the economic impact could be even greater if not for the limiting factor of reproductive inefficiency. That’s why Auburn University researchers are creating a basis of knowledge that...
by Jamie Creamer | Jun 21, 2019 | Entomology & Plant Pathology, News
By Jamie Creamer / Jun 21, 2019 3:11:48 PM News 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...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 19, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature, Horticulture
By Paul Hollis 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? A recent survey conducted by researchers at Auburn University shows that the state’s specialty crop...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 19, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Henry Kinnucan and Brittney Goodrich, agricultural economists in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture, comment on the heavy rain and floods affecting U.S. corn farmers, especially in the Midwest, who face delayed planting. Consumers also face rising grocery and...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 19, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, News
By Paul Hollis / Jun 19, 2019 3:14:04 PM News Henry Kinnucan and Brittney Goodrich, agricultural economists in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture, comment on the heavy rain and floods affecting U.S. corn farmers, especially in the Midwest, who face delayed...
by Jamie Creamer | Jun 19, 2019 | Entomology & Plant Pathology, Feature
By Jamie Creamer / Jun 19, 2019 9:57:48 AM Feature “The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?”—Seneca, first-century Roman Stoic philosopher “In order to do anything...
by Jamie Creamer | Jun 18, 2019 | Donor Impact Stories, Feature, Poultry Science
A teaching space inside the flagship building at Auburn University’s Charles C. Miller Jr. Poultry Research and Education Center is now the Pilgrim’s Education Classroom. The university’s Board of Trustees approved the designation at its June 7 meeting in Auburn in...
by Margaret Smith | Jun 13, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, News
By Maggie Smith / Jun 13, 2019 9:15:11 AM News Matthew Waters, assistant professor in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, and Liz Smith, academic advisor in the same department, are the respective winners of the Auburn University Parents’...