by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 23, 2014 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Auburn Junior Sees Ag Econ Degree from the Mission-Field Perspective by JAMIE CREAMER Ben Brinkerhoff went on his first mission trip the summer before his freshman year in high school and, even in the midst of that hot, labor-intensive week in Honduras, realized...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 3, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Horticulture
by NATHAN KELLY A 100-vine research vineyard that Elina Coneva established at the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station’s Chilton Research and Extension Center four years ago has the Auburn University horticulture associate professor feeling good about the future of...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 26, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By MARY CATHERINE GASTON A newly released 2013 U.S. Catfish Database that Auburn University aquacultural economist Terry Hanson compiled paints a grim portrait of the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry overall, but a few bright spots, particularly for Alabama...
by William Cahalin | May 1, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The recently released 2013 U.S. Catfish Database compiled by Auburn University aquacultural economist Terry Hanson paints a grim portrait of the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry overall, but a few bright spots, particularly for Alabama producers, are...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 11, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON In a nondescript building on the Auburn University campus, an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher is transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary in a study that could have huge implications here at home and around the...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 10, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Poultry Science
Auburn scientists use laying hens to study uterine fibroids by JAMIE CREAMER An estimated 70 percent of women in the U.S. develop fibroid tumors in the uterus by age 50, and while the noncancerous tumors cause no symptoms for the majority of those women, they make...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 1, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Former fisheries faculty practices what he preached raising inland shrimp by JAMIE CREAMER About this time every year, David Teichert-Coddington packs his bag, loads his trailer and hits the road, bound for the Florida Keys. If he were going for a few weeks of R &...