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’...
by Jamie Creamer | Jun 7, 2019 | News, Poultry Science, Research
By Jamie Creamer / Jun 7, 2019 5:24:16 PM News 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...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 5, 2019 | News, Poultry Science
By Paul Hollis / Jun 5, 2019 1:32:14 PM News Auburn University’s National Poultry Technology Center (NPTC), a leader in poultry housing and associated technologies for more than a decade, and Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN) today announced the opening of the largest...
by Josh Woods | May 31, 2019 | News
By Joshua Woods / May 31, 2019 5:22:10 PM Events The 2019 Irrigation Technologies in Your Hands Field Day is slated for June 26 at Posey Farms. Registration will start at 7:30 a.m. At the field day, Alabama Cooperative Extension System agents, farmers, state...
by William Cahalin | May 22, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alumni Stories
Chairperson, Division of Business and Accounting at Miles College in Birmingham, AL
by Margaret Smith | May 15, 2019 | Animal Sciences, News
By Maggie Smith / May 15, 2019 11:33:39 AM News Carolyn Huntington, lecturer and undergraduate program officer in the Department of Animal Sciences, has won the 2019 Outstanding Advising Award in the faculty advisor category from the National Academic Advising...
by Jamie Creamer | May 14, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature
By Jamie Creamer / May 14, 2019 11:39:07 AM Feature 2019 got off to a super start for Auburn University junior Wilson Morgan — with a trip to the Super Bowl in Atlanta. As neither a New England Patriots nor a Los Angeles Rams fan, he wasn’t at the Feb. 3 game as a...
by Jamie Creamer | May 7, 2019 | Biosystems Engineering, Horticulture, News, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Jamie Creamer / May 7, 2019 3:54:19 PM News The College of Agriculture was represented well in the Auburn University Office of Sustainability’s recent 2019 Spirit of Sustainability Awards ceremony, with wins in the group, faculty, staff and student...
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by Jamie Creamer | Apr 23, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
A scientific paper that Auburn Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Alumni Professor Valentina Hartarska co-authored has won the Association for Social Economics’ 2019 Warren Samuels Prize. The society presents the award annually to a high-quality...
by Margaret Smith | Apr 17, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, News
By Maggie Smith / Apr 17, 2019 3:22:24 PM News Valentina Hartarska, an alumni professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, was recently awarded the Warren Samuels Prize for Outstanding Research by the Association for Social Economics. The...
