by Josh Woods | Feb 5, 2019 | News, Poultry Science, Research
By Joshua Woods / Feb 5, 2019 4:15:16 PM News One of the nation’s largest food industries will soon find its innovation hub in Alabama, thanks to Auburn University’s new Charles C. Miller Poultry Research and Education Center. The 30-acre, multi-facility complex will...
by Josh Woods | Feb 5, 2019 | Entomology & Plant Pathology, Lawn & Garden, News
By Joshua Woods / Feb 5, 2019 4:01:22 PM News The Auburn University Bee Lab has been tapped to receive 100 percent of the funds donated to the College of Agriculture on the university’s Tiger Giving Day, set for Feb. 21. The Bee Lab, which opened in 2016, researches...
by Margaret Smith | Feb 5, 2019 | Biosystems Engineering, News
By Maggie Smith / Feb 5, 2019 2:49:17 PM News The College of Agriculture will introduce an undergraduate degree program in biological and agricultural technology management this fall semester, bringing to 14 the number of agriculture-related majors available to Auburn...
by Margaret Smith | Feb 5, 2019 | AL Cooperative Extension, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Farming, News
By Maggie Smith / Feb 5, 2019 2:26:58 PM News In the seven weeks since President Trump signed the 2018 farm bill into law, hemp hype has run rampant across the nation, fueled by the legislation’s legalization of industrial hemp production in the U.S. If the deluge of...
by Margaret Smith | Feb 5, 2019 | Horticulture, News
By Maggie Smith / Feb 5, 2019 2:21:17 PM News The Auburn University Horticulture Club claimed the 2019 Outstanding Club Award during the Southern Region of the American Society for Horticultural Sciences’ 83rd annual meeting in Birmingham recently. The award was...
by Margaret Smith | Feb 5, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Hunger Solutions Institute, News
By Maggie Smith / Feb 5, 2019 1:59:29 PM News A six-member team of Auburn agriculture majors won first place in the university’s inaugural Global Health Case Competition in January and advanced to the 2019 statewide contest in March at the University of Alabama...
by Jamie Creamer | Feb 1, 2019 | News, Poultry Science
Auburn University poultry science department head and professor Don Conner was an invited member of a panel that addressed the challenges of feeding the world during a Berlin, Germany, symposium on the growing global demand for poultry and other animal protein...
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by Jamie Creamer | Jan 28, 2019 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Pioneering plant biotechnologist Kan Wang will discuss crop genetic editing and its implications for sustainable agriculture when she delivers the Spring 2019 York Lecture Tuesday, Feb. 5, at Auburn University. The 4 p.m. presentation in Room 2510 of the Mell...
by William Cahalin | Jan 17, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alumni Stories
Amanda Stitt Moore is a development officer for Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC). In that capacity Amanda combines her passion for agriculture, higher education, and rural communities as she secures funding for ABAC, an institution that has a half a...
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by Jamie Creamer | Jan 10, 2019 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Feature, Poultry Science
Auburn University biosystems engineer Jeremiah Davis has assumed duties as director of the Auburn-based National Poultry Technology Center, or NPTC. Davis had served as associate director of the research and outreach center since joining the Auburn faculty in 2015 and...
by Jamie Creamer | Jan 9, 2019 | Development, News
By Jamie Creamer / Jan 9, 2019 4:55:17 PM News Auburn University’s College of Agriculture and Agricultural Alumni Association will recognize and celebrate five Alabamians for their significant contributions to the state’s agriculture industry through the years during...
by Jamie Creamer | Jan 9, 2019 | Biosystems Engineering, National Poultry Technology Center, News, Poultry Science
By Jamie Creamer / Jan 9, 2019 4:48:53 PM News Auburn University biosystems engineer Jeremiah Davis has assumed duties as director of the Auburn-based National Poultry Technology Center, or NPTC. Davis had served as associate director of the research and outreach...
by Paul Hollis | Jan 9, 2019 | Feature, Poultry Science, Research
By Paul Hollis / Jan 9, 2019 4:43:14 PM Feature A novel approach to improving food safety during the storage and transportation of raw poultry and seafood has earned Auburn poultry science assistant professor Amit Morey one of only nine New Innovator in Food and...
by Josh Woods | Jan 9, 2019 | Entomology & Plant Pathology, News
By Joshua Woods / Jan 9, 2019 4:35:48 PM News The National Academy of Inventors, or NAI, has named Joseph Kloepper, Alumni Professor of plant pathology in Auburn’s College of Agriculture, as one of its 2018 fellows. The 2018 fellows represent 125 research universities...
by Olivia Wilkes | Jan 9, 2019 | Feature, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Olivia Wilkes / Jan 9, 2019 4:25:46 PM Feature For months now, an Auburn University research team has been keeping close tabs on roughly 250 tagged paddlefish and smallmouth buffalo in the Alabama River in an effort to learn more about how lock-and-dam systems on a...
by William Cahalin | Jan 2, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alumni Stories
John Canfield is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2019, he received his M.S. in Rural Sociology at Auburn University, where his research focused on the financialization of farmland in rural Illinois. His advisor was...
by William Cahalin | Jan 1, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alumni Stories
Jennie Hargrove is a Youth Program Specialist with the Iowa 4-H Youth Development Program. In her role, she provides program, volunteer, and professional supports to seven county 4-H programs in south central Iowa. Jennie completed her B.S. in Family and Consumer...
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by Jamie Creamer | Dec 13, 2018 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology
The National Academy of Inventors, or NAI, has named Joseph Kloepper, Alumni Professor of plant pathology in Auburn’s College of Agriculture, as one of its 2018 fellows. The 2018 fellows represent 125 research universities and governmental and nonprofit research...
by Jamie Creamer | Dec 6, 2018 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Nineteen Auburn College of Agriculture and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station faculty who collectively secured more than $11.8 million in research funding in the past fiscal year were among the 32 honorees in the college’s 2018 faculty and staff awards program in...
by Jamie Creamer | Dec 4, 2018 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Horticulture, Invasive Species, Lawn & Garden, News, Research
A team of university scientists from across the U.S. is waging a nationwide offensive against a dastardly weed that the turfgrass industry in Alabama and beyond deems Enemy No. 1. The villain is Poa annua, or annual bluegrass, and Auburn weed scientist Scott McElroy...
by Margaret Smith | Dec 4, 2018 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, News, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Maggie Smith / Dec 4, 2018 2:24:14 PM News An Auburn University associate professor and a department chair soon to join the Auburn family were honored in November by the USDA’s Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ annual meeting in New Orleans....
