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 Paul Hollis | Mar 9, 2016 | AAES Administration, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
Part 2by PAUL HOLLISWhile crops research being conducted by the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) is attempting to attain high yields with maximum inputs, economics also are being considered, with an eye toward ensuring cost efficiency for farmers.“We...
by Paul Hollis | Feb 15, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
Part 1 by PAUL HOLLIS “How high can crop yields go? Researchers at Auburn University’s Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station intend to find out just that with a new initiative that aims to replicate the outstanding yields being achieved by some of the nation’s top...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 5, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Credit card offers, utility bills, unsolicited coupons and catalogs. If this is what typically fills your mailbox, you may have become understandably unexcited about the routine trip to the end of the driveway or the local post office. But...
by Jamie Creamer | Jun 3, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
AUBURN, Ala.—Less than six months after the U.S. announced plans to restore diplomatic and economic ties with Cuba, the Auburn University College of Agriculture has entered a historic partnership with the Agrarian University of Havana and the Cuban National Center for...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 31, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Associate professor’s passion for people and places drives food security work by MARY CATHERINE GASTON It sounds like the story line of a summer feel-good flick: A typical kid grows up in the suburbs of Detroit, finishes high school and enlists in the Navy. As a...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Feb 27, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Horticulture
Hort researchers test feasibility of banana production in Alabama by JAMIE CREAMER video by NATHAN KELLY In the world of food, bananas are rock stars. They’re Walmart’s perennial No. 1 best-selling item, outpacing all of the 150,000-plus other products in the...