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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...
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by Jamie Creamer | Sep 17, 2015 | Poultry Science
Wayne Farms LLC, the sixth-largest vertically integrated poultry producer in the U.S., has pledged $175,000 to the construction of a state-of-the-art poultry research unit at Auburn University. “We’re happy to invest in a new farm facility that will thrive, not only...
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by Jamie Creamer | Sep 11, 2015 | Animal Sciences
A one-day educational program targeted toward children and teens who own or have a passion for horses is set for Saturday, Oct. 24, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Stanley P. Wilson Beef Teaching Unit on the Auburn University campus.Co-sponsored by Auburn’s Department of...
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by Jamie Creamer | Sep 9, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Charles Chen, associate professor and peanut breeder in Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, has been recognized by the International Peanut Genome Initiative for his contributions to ongoing efforts to establish links between...
by Josh Woods | Sep 5, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Auburn University soil and environmental scientist Joey Shaw coached Team USA to a world championship Sept. 5 at the second annual International Field Course and Soil Judging Contest in Gödöllő, Hungary, and team member and spring 2015 agronomy and soils graduate...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 4, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Agronomy grad, professor take soil judging to the global stage by JAMIE CREAMER Here’s the situation Kristen Pegues finds herself in right now: She’s 5,300 miles from home, in a field somewhere northeast of Budapest, and life is the pits. Not the pits, as in terrible;...
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by Jamie Creamer | Sep 4, 2015 | Biosystems Engineering, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Dennis DeVries, professor in the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, has been inducted into the inaugural class of fellows of the American Fisheries Society. He received the honor in recognition of his outstanding contributions in leadership,...
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by Jamie Creamer | Sep 2, 2015 | Poultry Science
Although she was still a year and a half away from college, the science-loving high school junior from Birmingham had made up her mind that she was going to major in either sports medicine or biomedical engineering. But then she discovered the fascinating world of...
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by Jamie Creamer | Sep 2, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Poultry Science
Auburn University poultry scientists Joe Giambrone and Ken Macklin are using funding from the U.S. egg industry to investigate how the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, which has decimated poultry populations in the Midwest in the past nine months, spreads to...
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by Jamie Creamer | Aug 31, 2015 | Ag Land & Resource Management, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Development, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Auburn University’s 2015 homecoming celebration and football game are set for Saturday, Oct. 3, and so is the 36th annual Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture. The latter will take place at Ag Heritage Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Auburn–San Jose State...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 28, 2015 | COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Innocent Okuku, a key player in a movement to bring about a “green revolution” in sub-Saharan Africa, will present a visiting scholar seminar at Auburn University Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 11:45 a.m.in Comer Hall, room 109. The presentation, “Global Food Security...
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by Jamie Creamer | Aug 26, 2015 | AAES Administration, COA Administration, Entomology & Plant Pathology
A University of Oxford zoologist and international pheromone authority will explore the myths versus reality of pheromones in humans in a lecture Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 3:30 p.m. in Auburn University’s Rouse Hall, room 112.Sponsored by the College of Agriculture’s...
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by Jamie Creamer | Aug 19, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Horticulture
Members of Auburn University’s Horticulture Club had strong showings in the collegiate-level plant identification and horticultural commodity judging competition held during the American Society for Horticultural Science’s annual conference in New Orleans earlier this...
