by Paul Hollis | Nov 17, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
By Eddie McGriff McMichen Farm has become the first farm in Alabama to make and break the 100-bushel soybean barrier with just more than 102 bushels per acre. The Cherokee County farm—located near Centre in northeast Alabama—has been in the McMichen family since 1842....
by Paul Hollis | Oct 16, 2017 | AAES Administration, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature
By Paul Hollis The latest numbers tell the irrigation story: In Alabama, only 15 percent of the land currently available for farming is irrigated, a far cry from Mississippi’s 61 percent of cropland and Georgia’s 40 percent. Over time, that lack of irrigation...
by Paul Hollis | Oct 6, 2017 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Auburn agronomist Trey Cutts, Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences assistant professor and extension cotton specialist, is one of seven University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences graduates that the college’s alumni...
by Paul Hollis | Sep 18, 2017 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn Ag Online, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
An innovative contract between the College of Agriculture at Auburn University and the International Fertilizer Development Center, or IFDC, Auburn University College of Agriculture Dean Paul Patterson and J. Scott Angle, president and CEO of the International...
by Paul Hollis | Aug 14, 2017 | AAES Administration, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Paul Hollis Long-term research is vital to the future of U.S. production agriculture, but farmers can’t always afford to wait for solutions to their most pressing problems. That’s why a new Auburn University funding program is providing shorter-term grants that...
by Paul Hollis | Aug 14, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
By Paul Hollis The Central Alabama Crops Tour has been an annual happening on the region’s farm scene for just shy of 40 years now, with Auburn University researchers and extension specialists and county and regional agents updating producers on the latest in...
by Paul Hollis | Aug 10, 2017 | AAES Administration, Ag Land & Resource Management, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Horticulture
By Jamie Creamer The College of Agriculture has launched a project to establish a highly productive, on-campus teaching garden that will give greater visibility to active agricultural fieldwork at Auburn and enhance the legacy of the historic Old Rotation. Faculty...