by Paul Hollis | Nov 14, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences
by JAMIE CREAMER Despite back-to-back economic blows it has endured over the past decade, Alabama’s horse industry continues to have a substantial impact on the state’s bottom line, pumping an estimated $2.08 billion annually into the Alabama economy and...
by Paul Hollis | Nov 14, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by PAUL HOLLIS Auburn University research aimed at minimizing a deadly disease in catfish has, in a short time, prompted Alabama catfish producers to significantly change what they feed their fish. In the study they launched in 2015, researchers are examining whether...
by Paul Hollis | Nov 8, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Faculty and staff are invited to participate in a research study with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology to understand food choice, expected consumption of food products and investment decisions. Any person over 19 and not a student is...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
AUBURN, Ala.—With the goal of promoting collaboration in aquaculture and environmental science research and education, Auburn University and Ocean University of China have established the OUC–AU Joint Center for Aquaculture and Environmental Sciences. The joint center...
by Josh Woods | Nov 4, 2016 | AAES Administration, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Development, Poultry Science
Auburn University administration, faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends gathered Nov. 4 to dedicate the new Charles C. Miller Poultry Research and Education Center. The event honored the family of the facility’s namesake, the late Charles C. Miller Jr., a...
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by Paul Hollis | Oct 14, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, COA Communications
by PAUL HOLLIS The cost of food waste in America is estimated at a staggering $160 billion annually, with some reports stating that U.S. producers and consumers together waste more than 30 percent of our total food supply. Exploring some of the reasons for this...
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by Paul Hollis | Oct 14, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
by Joyce Tredaway Ducar The best yields I ever made in wheat averaged 107 bushels per acre, and they were made when I did just a few things differently than in the previous year. First, I controlled my weeds, particularly ryegrass. We have many options to use these...
