Conservation management helps sustain natural resources

by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station

The relationship between environmental sustainability and Alabama’s production agriculture sector is the focus of work being led by College of Agriculture faculty member and AAES researcher Julie Howe. Along with team partners in Georgia and Florida, Howe is examining...

AU Victory: New bentgrass release promises improved putting greens

by Paul Hollis | Oct 12, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences

by PAUL HOLLIS “AU Victory” is no longer simply the wish of every Auburn University sports fan. It’s also the name of a new bentgrass variety that promises improved putting greens for golfers.  The new variety—the first bentgrass released by the university’s turfgrass...

No tall tale

by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 4, 2015 | Biosystems Engineering

by MARY CATHERINE GASTON It sounds like a fun campfire game: Choose five words at random from a hat, and tell a story using all five. Your words: sailing, rubber, drone, engineer, Guatemala. What story would you tell? If you’re Christian Brodbeck, a research engineer...

With a passion

by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 4, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology

Kenya native helping others reach their potential by JAMIE CREAMER Please excuse the use of an overworked adjective, but there’s just no other way to describe Esther Ngumbi: The woman is passionate. She’s passionate about life, about giving back, about inspiring...

Wheat growers need to stay vigilant with Hessian fly

by Paul Hollis | Sep 22, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology

by PAUL HOLLIS Climate predictions for the upcoming fall and winter months indicate that Alabama wheat producers will have fewer problems this season with the Hessian fly, but now’s not the time to completely let down your guard. Results of studies have shown that...

El Niño adds sense of urgency to fall harvest season

by Paul Hollis | Sep 22, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences

  by PAUL HOLLIS AUBURN, Ala.—One of the strongest El Niño climate phases in decades has been building during the past several months, and it could make for a tricky fall harvest season in Alabama and throughout the lower Southeast. Producers who are readying...

Wayne Farms gift to support Auburn poultry farm relocation

by Jamie Creamer | Sep 17, 2015 | Poultry Science

Wayne Farms LLC, the sixth-largest vertically integrated poultry producer in the U.S., has pledged $175,000 to the construction of a state-of-the-art poultry research unit at Auburn University.   “We’re happy to invest in a new farm facility that will thrive, not only...