by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 8, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Chef David Bancroft is tireless in his efforts to find the best ingredients for the fresh, new interpretations of Southern classics he cooks up in his kitchen at Acre restaurant in Auburn. He’s so committed to sourcing those ingredients as...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 8, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
by JAMIE CREAMER House flies are much more than mere nuisances. In adult form, they carry and transmit more than 100 serious human and animal diseases, including salmonellosis, anthrax, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, cholera and diarrhea. They also spread pinworms,...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 7, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by JAMIE CREAMER Auburn University plant breeder Edzard van Santen is using a $402,500 competitive grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an improved variety of a non-bloating forage legume that could help beef producers across...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 2, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON video by NATHAN KELLY What do the U.S. Department of Defense, arts and crafts tycoon Martha Stewart and College of Agriculture researcher David Blersch have in common? All three are embracing a new technology known as 3D printing to advance...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 1, 2014 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
by JAMIE CREAMER It’s a safe bet that no one has ever called Cuba native Rodrigo Rodriguez-Kabana a conformist. That’s not in his DNA. From an early age, he was a threat to orchestrate mischief and flirt like crazy with danger. And who knows what might have become of...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 1, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON artwork by ASHLEY WISKIRCHEN If you’ve ever driven past the E.V. Smith Research Center near Tallassee on your way to an Auburn football game, you may have wondered what exactly the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station is. Made up of...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 26, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. – Auburn University professor, researcher and Extension specialist Dale Monks has been named director of research operations for outlying units of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Dean and Director Bill Batchelor has announced. The appointment...
