by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Auburn University researchers are helping poultry producers combat a massive and costly outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza. Auburn University poultry scientists Joe Giambrone and Ken Macklin are using funding from the U.S. egg industry to investigate how...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
An estimated 70 percent of women in the U.S. develop fibroid tumors in the uterus by age 50, and while the noncancerous tumors cause no symptoms for the majority of those women, they make life miserable for tens of thousands of others. Within his own family, Wallace...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Animal sciences assistant professor Christy Bratcher and a multidisciplinary team of scientists from Auburn and Tuskegee universities are working on a multi-year, $4.8 million grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to help ensure the safety of...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Developing new specialty crops like grapes is one way of growing and revitalizing rural areas of Alabama. Elina Coneva, an associate professor in Auburn University’s Department of Horticulture, dreams of making the grape a profitable specialty crop for Alabama...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
The Southeast Climate Extension project, a large-scale partnership of six universities across the Southeast, was recently awarded the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Partnership Award for Multistate Efforts. Brenda Ortiz, an associate professor in Auburn...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Brenda Ortiz, an associate professor in the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, is researching the impact of weather and climate on agriculture, particularly grain crops like wheat and soybeans. Working with...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Concerns over agriculture’s impact on global environmental change have prompted extensive research aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon sequestration in row-crop, forest and livestock production systems, but a study underway at Auburn...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Discipline and a pro-active attitude are requirements if farmers hope to slow the spread of herbicide-resistant weeds on Alabama cropland. That’s the message being carried by Auburn’s team of researchers and Extension specialists who are traveling to communities...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
More than 30 unique AAES studies are addressing issues of environmental quality and sustainability. From water quality to bioproduct development to the carbon sequestration potential of Alabama soils, the projects address a wide range of natural resource-related...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
The relationship between environmental sustainability and Alabama’s production agriculture sector is the focus of work being led by College of Agriculture faculty member and AAES researcher Julie Howe. Along with team partners in Georgia and Florida, Howe is examining...
by Jamie Creamer | Oct 27, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Nhuong Van Tran, a 2011 College of Agriculture alumnus, will present a guest lecture, “Future of Global Fish Supply and Demand,” Monday, Nov. 2, at 3:30 p.m. in Comer Hall 207. Tran was awarded his B.S. degree in aquaculture in his native Vietnam in 1997...
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by Paul Hollis | Oct 12, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by PAUL HOLLIS “AU Victory” is no longer simply the wish of every Auburn University sports fan. It’s also the name of a new bentgrass variety that promises improved putting greens for golfers. The new variety—the first bentgrass released by the university’s turfgrass...
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by Ashley Wiskirchen | Oct 6, 2015 | Poultry Science
AUBURN, Ala. – October 5, 2015 – A charitable corporate contribution of $250,000 from Tyson Foods — the largest contribution to date to benefit Auburn University’s Department of Poultry Science’s new research farm unit — will further the department’s academic and...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
Ag Roundup’s 35-year-long streak of picture-perfect weather ended Oct. 3 with the 2015 edition, but the steady mist and gray skies didn’t hamper attendance or dampen the spirits of the more than 2,600 folks who packed Auburn University’s Ag Heritage Park for the...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 4, 2015 | Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON It sounds like a fun campfire game: Choose five words at random from a hat, and tell a story using all five. Your words: sailing, rubber, drone, engineer, Guatemala. What story would you tell? If you’re Christian Brodbeck, a research engineer...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 4, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
Kenya native helping others reach their potential by JAMIE CREAMER Please excuse the use of an overworked adjective, but there’s just no other way to describe Esther Ngumbi: The woman is passionate. She’s passionate about life, about giving back, about inspiring...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 4, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Just because there’s no football on the Plains on Saturday, Oct. 17, that doesn’t mean you should stay away. The School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences invites you to enjoy a rare, uncongested fall Saturday in the Loveliest Village at its second annual...
by Jamie Creamer | Sep 28, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Development, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
The 36th Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture, or Ag Roundup, will get underway at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at Ag Heritage Park and run until 2 p.m., an hour before kickoff of the Auburn University–San Jose State homecoming football game. Co-sponsored by...
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by Paul Hollis | Sep 22, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
by PAUL HOLLIS Climate predictions for the upcoming fall and winter months indicate that Alabama wheat producers will have fewer problems this season with the Hessian fly, but now’s not the time to completely let down your guard. Results of studies have shown that...
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by Paul Hollis | Sep 22, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by PAUL HOLLIS AUBURN, Ala.—One of the strongest El Niño climate phases in decades has been building during the past several months, and it could make for a tricky fall harvest season in Alabama and throughout the lower Southeast. Producers who are readying...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 18, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
The Auburn University School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences will host an expo and field day Saturday, Oct. 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Research Center on North College Street in Auburn. Free and open to the public, the event...
