by Jamie Creamer | Feb 1, 2017 | AAES Administration, COA Administration
Animal geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam will address the often-controversial issue of genetic engineering’s role in livestock production systems on the Auburn University campus Tuesday, Feb. 14, when she presents “Animal biotechnology: What is it, what could it be, and...
by Josh Woods | Jan 23, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Auburn University is joining forces with the world’s leading sports turf consultancy to initiate research and development programs throughout the U.S. sports surface market. The agreement with the STRI Group will focus primarily on expanding the U.S. soccer industry,...
by Jamie Creamer | Jan 13, 2017 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alumni Stories, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Ten successful professionals who hold academic degrees from Auburn University’s College of Agriculture have been selected as the college’s most outstanding alumni for 2017. The 10, who will be honored in an awards ceremony Feb. 8 in Auburn, include the...
by Paul Hollis | Jan 12, 2017 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Information Technology
by PAUL HOLLIS How big is data in U.S. agriculture? Consider that one acre of corn can generate seven gigabytes of data. With approximately 93 million acres of the crop currently in production, that’s 145 million DVDs filled with information—from just one crop. The...
by Paul Hollis | Jan 12, 2017 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences
by MAGGIE SMITH Christy Bratcher always knew she wanted a career that involved working with animals. However, being a veterinarian didn’t seem like the right fit. Bratcher, now an associate professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, knows she has found her home...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 10, 2017 | AAES Administration, Ag Land & Resource Management, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Development, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Information Technology, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
The Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association will honor five men who have had a major impact on Alabama agriculture when it hosts the 2017 Alabama Agriculture Hall of Honor banquet Feb. 9 at the Auburn Marriott Opelika Hotel and Conference Center. The five...
by Paul Hollis | Dec 7, 2016 | AAES Administration, COA Administration, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture
Plant pathology faculty member Leonardo De La Fuente has been appointed the Entomology and Plant Pathology Faculty Endowed Professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology and Department of Horticulture head and professor Dave Williams reappointed as the...
by Paul Hollis | Dec 6, 2016 | AAES Administration, Ag Land & Resource Management, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Development, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Information Technology, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Henry Fadamiro has been tapped to serve as associate dean for research in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture and as associate director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, effective Jan. 1, 2017. He has served as the college’s assistant dean and...
by Jamie Creamer | Dec 5, 2016 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration
The Auburn University College of Agriculture and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station have announced their 2016 Faculty and Staff Award winners, all of whom will be formally recognized in a college/AAES awards ceremony in February. The faculty awards and their 2016...
by Josh Woods | Nov 16, 2016 | COA Administration, Horticulture
From the Andalusia Star News Students attending LBWCC with plans to transfer to Auburn after earning their associate degree now have a clearer track to get there. On Monday, officials from LBWCC and Auburn University signed a transfer agreement for the Department of...
by Paul Hollis | Nov 14, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences
by JAMIE CREAMER Despite back-to-back economic blows it has endured over the past decade, Alabama’s horse industry continues to have a substantial impact on the state’s bottom line, pumping an estimated $2.08 billion annually into the Alabama economy and...
by Paul Hollis | Nov 14, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by PAUL HOLLIS Auburn University research aimed at minimizing a deadly disease in catfish has, in a short time, prompted Alabama catfish producers to significantly change what they feed their fish. In the study they launched in 2015, researchers are examining whether...
by Paul Hollis | Nov 8, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Faculty and staff are invited to participate in a research study with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology to understand food choice, expected consumption of food products and investment decisions. Any person over 19 and not a student is...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
AUBURN, Ala.—With the goal of promoting collaboration in aquaculture and environmental science research and education, Auburn University and Ocean University of China have established the OUC–AU Joint Center for Aquaculture and Environmental Sciences. The joint center...
by Josh Woods | Nov 4, 2016 | AAES Administration, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Development, Poultry Science
Auburn University administration, faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends gathered Nov. 4 to dedicate the new Charles C. Miller Poultry Research and Education Center. The event honored the family of the facility’s namesake, the late Charles C. Miller Jr., a...
by Paul Hollis | Oct 14, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, COA Communications
by PAUL HOLLIS The cost of food waste in America is estimated at a staggering $160 billion annually, with some reports stating that U.S. producers and consumers together waste more than 30 percent of our total food supply. Exploring some of the reasons for this...
by Paul Hollis | Oct 14, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
by Joyce Tredaway Ducar The best yields I ever made in wheat averaged 107 bushels per acre, and they were made when I did just a few things differently than in the previous year. First, I controlled my weeds, particularly ryegrass. We have many options to use these...
by Paul Hollis | Oct 14, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, Poultry Science
National Poultry Technology Center The ever‐evolving modern poultry house has gained numerous energy efficiencies over the last few years. Improvements in tightening techniques and insulation technology and in ventilation systems, control systems, lighting and...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 3, 2016 | Poultry Science
by JAMIE CREAMER There was but one stipulation on the full, four-year scholarship that Alabama A&M University offered South Macon County High School senior Melvin Carter back in the late 1980s: The scholarship was his, the university said, if he agreed to major in...
by Jamie Creamer | Sep 30, 2016 | AAES Administration, Ag Land & Resource Management, COA Administration, Poultry Science
Poultry-based small plates prepared by a dozen of the area’s top chefs and beverages produced by 10 of Alabama’s finest breweries, wineries and distilleries are on tap for local residents who attend Birds and Brews, a fall social and scholarship fundraiser set for...
by Jamie Creamer | Sep 29, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, COA Administration
Jayson Lusk, an Oklahoma State University food and agricultural economist whose research focuses on what we eat and why we eat it, will deliver the 2016 E.T. York Distinguished Lecture, titled “The Future of Food,” Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the Auburn Alumni Center on...