by Josh Woods | Apr 4, 2016 | Animal Sciences
From the Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Foundation The Alabama BCIF recently awarded a graduate fellowship and two undergraduate scholarships to three outstanding young people at the Alabama BCIA 2016 Annual Meeting and Awards Program held in conjunction with the...
by Josh Woods | Apr 4, 2016 | Animal Sciences
From the Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association The Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association (BCIA) recently named the 2015 recipient of the Outstanding Extension Educator at the 73rd Annual Alabama Cattleman’s Convention in Birmingham. Alabama BCIA recognized...
by Jamie Creamer | Apr 4, 2016 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
Mayrolin García, an Auburn University master’s student studying under the direction of entomology assistant professor Nathaniel Hardy in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, has been awarded a prestigious 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 1, 2016 | Horticulture
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Here’s a good example: Google “Ole Miss national championships,” and the search results will tell you that the Rebels hold three national titles. Well, maybe they hold three national titles in...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 31, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
A College of Agriculture alumnus who’s hit the ground running as the college’s new dean and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station director. An Auburn poultry science freshman/entrepreneur who’s burning up the highway with his menagerie of party animals. An alum and...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 24, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. –Activities ranging from a carnival to free biscuits on the concourse are on the schedule for the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s Ag Week 2016 celebration, set for March 28-April 1. The week will kick off Monday, March 28, when Auburn’s Block...
by Jamie Creamer | Mar 18, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
The chief scientist for the nation’s efforts to solve global hunger and food insecurity will present a lecture, “The End of Hunger: from Vision to Reality,” in Auburn Thursday, March 31, at 4 p.m. in the Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center...
by Jamie Creamer | Mar 16, 2016 | Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Entomology & Plant Pathology, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Five College of Agriculture doctoral and master’s students are among 24 graduate students campus-wide who have been selected as winners in the Auburn University Graduate School’s 2015-16 awards program. Lauren Jescovitch, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Fisheries,...
by Paul Hollis | Mar 11, 2016 | AAES Administration, Ag Land & Resource Management, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Auburn Ag Online, 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
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University Alumni Professor and undergraduate program coordinator Oladiran Fasina has been named interim associate dean for research in the College of Agriculture and interim assistant director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 10, 2016 | Animal Sciences
Carolyn Huntington, undergraduate program officer for the Department of Animal Sciences, and Ellen Rankins, a senior in equine science, were recognized by the American Society of Animal Sciences’ Southern Section during the group’s annual meeting in San Antonio in...
by Paul Hollis | Mar 9, 2016 | AAES Administration, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
Part 2by PAUL HOLLISWhile crops research being conducted by the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) is attempting to attain high yields with maximum inputs, economics also are being considered, with an eye toward ensuring cost efficiency for farmers.“We...
by Paul Hollis | Mar 9, 2016 | AAES Administration, Ag Land & Resource Management, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by PAUL HOLLISAlabama farmers now have new options available when it comes to sampling their soils, including a Soil Quality Index (SQI) and technology that allows for grid sampling.Charles Mitchell, a professor in the College of Agriculture Crop, Soil and...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 8, 2016 | Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.— Auburn University has joined a new initiative dedicated to the mission of helping farmers better control, manage and maximize the value of the data they collect every day in the fields. The Agricultural Data Coalition is the result of years of planning...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Feb 29, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Alumni mentoring program gives grads an opportunity to influence individuals and the industry by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Ask folks who have interacted with Grace Smith Ellis, and they will tell you that the 2006 Auburn College of Agriculture grad has got it together....
by William Cahalin | Feb 24, 2016 | Research, Student Research, Student Spotlight
Ben Staton is a graduate assistant pursuing a degree in fisheries management. Ben’s research is focused on Chinook salmon stocks in western Alaska. He is using long-term data sets to create and test models that address questions and make predictions relating to the...
by Jamie Creamer | Feb 19, 2016 | AAES Administration, Ag Land & Resource Management, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Auburn Ag Online, 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
AUBURN, Ala.— Auburn University alumnus Paul Patterson, who has served as associate dean for instruction in Auburn’s College of Agriculture for almost seven years, has been named dean of the college and director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station,...
by Jamie Creamer | Feb 16, 2016 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
A foursome of Auburn Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences students claimed fourth-place honors in the 2016 Collegiate Turf Bowl, held during the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America’s annual meeting the second week of February in San...
by Paul Hollis | Feb 15, 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, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture
Auburn University entomologist Arthur Appel, who most recently served as interim dean of the College of Agriculture and interim director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, has been recognized as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of...
by Paul Hollis | Feb 15, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
Part 1 by PAUL HOLLIS “How high can crop yields go? Researchers at Auburn University’s Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station intend to find out just that with a new initiative that aims to replicate the outstanding yields being achieved by some of the nation’s top...
by Paul Hollis | Feb 15, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
Alabama Cooperative Extension System As farmers were planning this year’s crop, Alabama Cooperative Extension professionals and Auburn University College of Agriculture faculty were working ahead to determine the best varieties for farmers across the state....
by Paul Hollis | Feb 15, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Horticulture
Auburn University’s College of Agriculture is working across state lines with other land-grant institutions to help increase fruit tree production in the U.S.Nearly 30 land-grant institutions, representative of the Western, North-Central, Southern and Northeastern...