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by Jamie Creamer | Apr 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Market at Ag Heritage Park will kick off its 15th season on the Auburn University campus Thursday, May 2, from 3 to 6 p.m. and will continue every Thursday, same place and time, through Aug. 29. Sponsored by Auburn’s College of Agriculture, the outdoor farmers...
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by Jamie Creamer | Apr 17, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Brooke Johnson, an Auburn University junior majoring in environmental science, has received the 2019 Susan Stacy Entrenkin Yates Scholastic Achievement Award from the Auburn chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. The Yates Award is presented annually to...
by Margaret Smith | Apr 12, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Student Spotlight
By Maggie Smith / Apr 12, 2019 4:17:35 PM News Brooke Johnson, a junior in environmental science, was recently awarded the 2019 Susan Stacy Entrenkin Yates Scholastic Achievement Award by the honor society Phi Kappa Phi. To be eligible for the award, a student must...
by Margaret Smith | Apr 4, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature, Research
By Maggie Smith / Apr 4, 2019 2:59:26 PM Feature Auburn researchers are working to expand irrigation on farms throughout Alabama in a way that benefits agriculture and conserves natural resources. Through funds provided by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation...
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by Jamie Creamer | Apr 3, 2019 | Ag Land & Resource Management, COA Administration, Feature, Poultry Science
U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Bill Northey will visit Auburn University April 10 as the university cuts the ribbon for its newest facility, an administrative and classroom building at its Miller Poultry Research...
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by Jamie Creamer | Mar 29, 2019 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences will host a Fisheries Expo and Field Day Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center, located at 2101 N. College St. in Auburn. In addition to activities for people of...
by Jamie Creamer | Mar 29, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
PHOTO: The Auburn University College of Agriculture’s 2019 Alumni Award recipients included, from left, Bryan Word, Shannon Weaver, Mike Leonard, Alice McLaughlin, Dr. Calvin Johnson, Annette Bitto, John Woodruff and Johnny Grace. Eight successful professionals...
by Jamie Creamer | Mar 29, 2019 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Several College of Agriculture faculty members have been awarded promotion, tenure or both, effective fall semester 2019, Auburn Provost Bill Hardgrave has announced. Seven of those individuals will begin the 2019-20 academic year as full professors. They include Eve...
by Margaret Smith | Mar 5, 2019 | News, Research
By Maggie Smith / Mar 5, 2019 2:05:33 PM News Federal funding legislation recently approved by Congress includes more than $43 million for a new agricultural science facility at Auburn University that will improve food production in the state of Alabama and beyond....
by Margaret Smith | Mar 5, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, News, Student Spotlight
By Maggie Smith / Mar 5, 2019 1:56:07 PM News Frances Browne, a graduate student in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences at Auburn University, won first place in the Weed Science Society of America’s Ph.D. oral presentation competition during the...
by Margaret Smith | Mar 5, 2019 | News, Women in Ag
By Maggie Smith / Mar 5, 2019 1:44:29 PM News Auburn University’s Women in Agriculture will host its 2019 Spring Luncheon Thursday, April 18, in Auburn and is inviting all women involved in or associated with agriculture and agribusiness at any level not only to...
by Margaret Smith | Feb 5, 2019 | News
By Maggie Smith / Feb 5, 2019 4:30:19 PM News Recently, College of Agriculture assistant professor Amit Morey spoke to attendees of the Auburn University Libraries’ Media and Digital Resource Lab poster design workshop as a featured guest speaker. Morey shared his...
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...
