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Auburn alum, Abigail Dorrill holds a chicken while posing in her family's backyard farm on a sunny day.

Abigail Dorrill’s backyard farm is home to several chickens and two horses.

Careers with an agriculture degree might surprise you—horses, drones + more

While farming and ranching remain the backbone of Alabama’s agriculture industry, they’re only part of the story. Today, agriculture needs professionals in everything from animal nutrition and research to engineering, business and emerging technologies like drones and precision mapping.

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Auburn research student checking oysterws on Dauphin Island

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Auburn's Toomer's Oaks

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Fisheries program

From pets to people, this Auburn student took an unconventional path to medicine

Auburn student

Fungus is the future for this Auburn grad

Auburn grad with dog

This new pumpkin beer is 100% Alabama-grown - here's how

Auburn students get to work on the pumpkin purée for New Realm’s beer collaboration.

How these 3 Auburn students are giving local farmers a voice

Auburn students

From hockey star to cancer researcher: one Auburn student’s journey

Biotech student

How this Auburn student landed her dream landscaping internship

Student internship

This Auburn PhD found 10,000-year-old bat guano near Huntsville

Geosciences PhD student

What's it really like to go to Auburn, according to 2 students

Malia Neville (left) and Clay Dorrill (right) at Samford Hall.

You can travel to Mexico, help the environment + more through this Auburn program

Environmental Science students observe samples outdoors

4 surprising careers you can pursue in agriculture in Alabama

Two Auburn Agriculture students use mechanical equipment in a lab

How this Aubrun grad is making the university more accessible right now

Auburn Agriculture recruiter, Madisen cope, walks on campus wearing an Auburn Agriculture sweatshirt

How these 3 women are thriving in agriculture right now

(L-R) Mallory, Maddie + Laura—3 Auburn Agriculture students.

This Auburn grad found an amazing alternative to vet school in Huntsville

Savannah Douthit, Customer Quality Representative at Aviagen in Huntsville

Check out the most technologically-advanced chicken farm you’ve ever seen

Dr. Charlene Hanlon at the feed mill at Auburn’s Miller Centerthit, Customer Quality Representative at Aviagen in Huntsville

The BATMan degree – why these 2 Auburn students chose it as their major

Jake Waddell + Emily Ward, two Auburn BATM students outside the Corley Building

This AU grad student will change your view now on agriculture in Auburn

Alyssa outside Comer Hall

From family pumpkin patch to Auburn University – check out Anna Claire’s story now

Anna Claire outside Toomer's Drugstore in Auburn, AL

Why Faith fell in love with Agricultural Economics at Auburn – from family cattle farm to business world

Faith Lane, an Agricultural Economics student at Auburn inside a warmly lit building

The only farm-to-table university dining in the state is at Auburn – check it out now

An Auburn Ag student poses inside a Vertical Farm trailer.

Why these 2 Emmas love studying Applied Biotechnology at Auburn

Emma Stough (left) and Emma Wingfield (right) inside a campus lab

How Auburn’s football field doubles as an amazing scientific research center

This remarkable student knits, learns languages + debunks Poultry Science myths

Kyndal Staley poses in PPE outside of the Charles Miller Poultry Center

This new Animal Sciences graduate will transform a male-dominated field – learn how

Wilson Anne is a recent Auburn graduate, posing outside Comer Hall

Here’s how you can study agriculture at Auburn + save money

Devin writes in a notebook while sitting near flowers at the Rooftop Garden