by Jamie Creamer | Jan 26, 2018 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Auburn University research and extension will be a central focus of “Spotlight on Agriculture,” an upcoming Alabama Public Television documentary series about the state’s agricultural industry. The series will debut on APT Monday, Feb. 5, at 9 p.m. CST, but the Auburn...
by Jamie Creamer | Dec 19, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Thirty Auburn University College of Agriculture employees won top honors for their outstanding accomplishments and dedicated service throughout the year during the college’s 2017 faculty and staff awards program in Auburn in December. “These individuals have truly...
by Paul Hollis | Oct 16, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Feature, Horticulture
By Elina Coneva In a long-term research project, 11 grape varieties tolerant to a dangerous disease threat were planted and evaluated for their suitability to Alabama environmental conditions. The Pierce’s disease-tolerant American and French-American hybrid bunch...
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 Jamie Creamer | Oct 3, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Two annual College of Agriculture events that put the spotlight on agriculture in general and Alabama agriculture in particular drew a combined 5,300-plus attendees on back-to-back hot-and-humid Saturdays in September. More than 3,000 of those folks—3,001, to be...
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...