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Research Highlights - Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
January
2018
Reducing risks and uncertainties
Researchers hope to encourage more biomass crop production

Auburn University researchers are hoping to reduce some of the risks and uncertainties of growing biomass crops with a project that focuses on the socioeconomic implications and public policy challenges of bioenergy market development and expansion.

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Mapping the peanut genome
The Peanut Genome Consortium—an international team of scientists that includes Auburn University’s Charles Chen—unveiled the map of the cultivated peanut’s entire genome earlier this month, marking the completion of a rigorous five-year research project funded by grower, sheller and manufacturer associations.

 

Bowen top Penn State alum
Auburn University plant pathology Alumni Professor Kira Bowen’s major scientific accomplishments in the field of plant disease epidemiology have earned her two of the Penn State University College of Agricultural Sciences’ highest honors: a 2017 Outstanding Alumni award and induction into the college’s Armsby Honors Society.
Auburn alumni group to honor Alabama agricultural leaders
The Auburn Agricultural Alumni Association will salute five Alabamians who have had a major impact on Alabama agriculture during its 2018 Alabama Agriculture Hall of Honor banquet Thursday, Feb. 8, at the Auburn Marriott Opelika Hotel and Conference Center.
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AT THE STATIONS
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.
 
North Alabama Horticulture Research Center
Two border rows of Blue Hubbard winter squash are being grown as a trap crop around yellow crook neck squash to attract cucumber beetles and squash vine borers. These insects prefer the Hubbard squash over the yellow squash. Blue Hubbard squash is scouted and an insecticide is applied to control insects. This reduces the amount of insecticide applications that have to be applied to the yellow crook neck squash. This same system has been shown to work for other cucurbits such as cantaloupes, watermelons and cucumbers.
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IN THE FIELD
Ag Outlook Meetings

Jan. 18, 19, 24, 25, 31, Feb. 1
The Alabama Cooperative Extension System will hold a series of Alabama Agriculture Outlook meetings across the state in January and February. The Farm and Agribusiness Management team will update farmers, producers and agribusiness owners on the current agricultural situation in the state, as well as expectations for 2018.
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Precision Agriculture Workshop

Jan. 18
Agricultural technologies are evolving, and producers are evolving alongside. The days of horse and buggy are a thing of the past as farmers seek to be more productive and sustainable on fewer acres. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System recognizes the need to grow and is working with industry partners to conduct workshops to educate farmers. Extension professionals will host the first precision agriculture workshop of 2018, Jan. 18 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
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YOUR WORK
"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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