Alabama’s McMichen Farm breaks 100-bushel soybean barrier

NRCS funds to demonstrate and promote best irrigation practices in Alabama

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...

College, fertilizer institute partner to offer online training worldwide

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...
Alabama’s McMichen Farm breaks 100-bushel soybean barrier

New AAES grant program addresses critical agricultural needs

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...
Alabama’s McMichen Farm breaks 100-bushel soybean barrier

New teaching garden to strengthen ag's on-campus presence

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...