by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 31, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
His dad helped revolutionize the way we farm fish. Now this fisheries grad spends his days ensuring folks can catch them. by MARY CATHERINE GASTON If you’ve ever crossed paths with Graves Lovell, chances are you remember him. It’s fairly likely he’s the only...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
AUBURN, Ala.—The Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association recently announced the 2016 inductees into the Alabama Agricultural Hall of Honor and the 2015 Pioneer Award recipients. The five will be recognized for their contributions to Alabama agriculture...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 2, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON You can call Gordon Stone a lot of things, because he’s been a lot of things in his 52 years on earth—letterman, lobbyist, farmhand, father, missionary, mayor. But there’s one thing you can’t call the 1986 College of Ag grad: You can’t call...
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...
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...
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;...
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...