by Jamie Creamer | Apr 29, 2016 | Ag Land & Resource Management, COA Administration
The Market at Ag Heritage Park kicks off its 12th season Thursday, May 12, from 3 to 6 p.m., but shoppers take note: The location has changed. For 2016, the weekly, growers-only farmers market will be situated beside Ag Heritage Park’s Edward L. Lowder Red Barn and...
by Jamie Creamer | Apr 13, 2016 | AAES Administration, COA Administration
Tickets are on sale now for a fresh-from-the-farm feast that the Auburn Agricultural Alumni Association will host Thursday, June 2, at 6 p.m. at Ag Heritage Park’s Alabama Farmers Pavilion. The Farm-to-Table Dinner, a fundraiser for College of Agriculture...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 31, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
A College of Agriculture alumnus who’s hit the ground running as the college’s new dean and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station director. An Auburn poultry science freshman/entrepreneur who’s burning up the highway with his menagerie of party animals. An alum and...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 4, 2016 | Horticulture
by NATHAN KELLY and MARY CATHERINE GASTON Visit the campus of Fayetteville High School in Talladega County, and what you find may surprise you. Far from the typical public K-12 campus, Fayetteville’s grounds are a real-life wonderland designed to extend learning...
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 Paul Hollis | Nov 30, 2015 | AAES Administration, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by PAUL HOLLISFederal regulators have approved a fast-growing transgenic salmon as the first genetically engineered animal available for human consumption. And while some are hailing it as a historic breakthrough, others are questioning whether the current approval...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 3, 2015 | Animal Sciences, Poultry Science
The College of Agriculture raised more than $10,000 for Department of Animal Sciences scholarships at Pork and Cork, the first in what will become an annual fall fundraising social hosted by the Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association. Held Oct. 23 at the...