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Research Highlights is a monthly publication
of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. |
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Growing brewing industry from the ground up |
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Researchers respond to burgeoning craft beer demand
The growth of the nation’s craft brewing industry continues to soar, with 2015 revenues up by 16 percent, to $23 billion, from 2014. Alabama is part of that growth, and that’s why researchers in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture have embarked on a project to offer production recommendations for farmers in the state who are interested in adding potential profit-makers to their crop mix.
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Improving cow herd quality |
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The Sand Mountain Elite Heifer Development Program, which just completed its inaugural year, provides a potential solution to the challenges of raising quality replacement heifers. |
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The value of GMO crops |
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GMO crops have the potential to change the world for the better, says David Weaver, longtime professor and researcher in the College of Agriculture's Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences. |
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Scientists discover process regulating resistance in mosquitoes |
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A team of Auburn University research entomologists probing the molecular processes that lead to insecticide resistance in mosquitoes has determined that a family of signaling molecules known as G-protein-coupled receptors controls the genes associated with resistance development in mosquitoes. |
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The Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station has 15 outlying research units located throughout the state, each representing a different soil type and climate region. Here's a snapshot of some of the research underway in Cullman. |
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North Alabama Horticulture Research Center
Grain sorghum and sunflowers are being grown as trap crops around tomatoes to attract leaf-footed bugs and stink bugs feeding on tomato fruit. Trap crops are scouted, and when insects reach a certain threshold, an insecticide is applied to the trap crop. This reduces the amount of insecticide applications that have to be applied to the tomato crop.
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August Agronomic Crops Webinar
Aug. 9, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. |
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The Agronomic Crops Team from the Alabama Cooperative Extension System is presenting a monthly webinar on Aug. 9 covering evaluating harvest time and harvest aids for peanuts and cotton, pod-blasting peanuts, wheat planting dates and varieties, and cover crops. |
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2016 Beef Conference
Aug. 13, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
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The Department of Animal Sciences at Auburn University will host its 2016 Beef Cattle Conference Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Ham Wilson Livestock Arena on campus. The conference is themed “Playing above the Curve: Innovations for the Cow-Calf Producer.” |
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"Research Highlights" is a monthly e-newsletter focusing on the work of Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station scientists. The AAES encompasses almost 200 researchers in five Auburn University colleges and schools, at six interdisciplinary research centers and institutes on the Auburn campus, and at 15 outlying research units located across the state.To get the word out on your AAES research projects, please contact us at researchhighlights@auburn.edu. |
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Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station Office of Agricultural Communications and Marketing 3 Comer Hall, Auburn, AL 36801 agcomm@auburn.edu
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