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Crop Production-Food, Fiber, Ornamentals, and Turf

Extension educators are striving to ensure that Alabama farmers remain competitive in a global farming economy even as they adopt safer, more environmentally sustainable production practices.

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Teaching the ABCs of Farming

A group of men and a few women huddle around the director of the North Alabama Horticulture Research Center,... more

Extension Specialist Receives Second Presidential Service Award

Normal, Ala.—Winrock International recently awarded 123 of their volunteers with the President’s Volunteer Service Award, including Robert Spencer, an urban regional... more

Alabama Extension Crops Team Adopting a New Operating Standard for a Data-driven Era

​Dale Monks still recalls the day when Patrick Doyle, a … beloved Middle Tennessee... more

Green Industry Training Center: Key Asset for Nursery and Landscape Professionals

The horticulture, nursery and landscaping industry are big business in Alabama. John Nabors, the director of the Alabama Green... more

Expert: Fertilizer Facility Explosions Unlikely in Alabama

​An expert says the likelihood of a fertilizer-related … incident similar to the fiery... more

Some Thoughts on the West, Texas, Fertilizer Plant Disaster

When I first heard the news about the West, Texas, fertilizer facility explosion, I was shocked like everyone else that... more

Auburn University Hosting Alabama Water Policy Symposium, May 10

​A statewide partnership seeking a comprehensive water policy … for Alabama will hold a... more

Partnership Offering Training to Help Employers Untangle the New I-9 Form

​“Do it as if your job depended on it.”  … That’s the advice... more

Sikora Elected President of Southern Soybean Disease Workers Group

​Edward Sikora, a plant pathologist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and an Auburn University professor in the Department of... more

Alabama Row Crops Now a Billion-Dollar Industry

​For the first time in history, Alabama’s principal row crops … In fact, the... more


Peach Orchard News   RSS

an example of the effect of 'rest breaking' product applied on January 29, 2002 to 'Cresthaven' peach tree

Peach and Strawberry Update

Noticed plum curculio (PC) larvae infested fruit had begun to drop from peach trees. I would estimate that fruit began... more

Cool Season Trap Crops Working

Good growth was obtained with many of the cool season trap crops such as wheat. Now that seed heads are... more

Rapid Increase in Activity

Last Thursday we captured our first plum curculio (PC) in an unmanaged peach orchard here at the office. From four... more

Activity Increases for Plants and Bugs

Peach orchards throughout Central Alabama are actively moving into full bloom. The bloom period will stretch over a longer period... more

Delayed Winter Weather, Helping?

Seems we are just now beginning to see winter weather. This is typically what happens when we have a warmer... more

Temperature Drops Not Lasting

We have continued to see short duration drops in temperatures followed by warmer and moist conditions. While the weather has... more

Mild Winter Temps Cause Concern

Fruit growers throughout Alabama and the southeast are getting concerned about the mild winter we are experiencing this year. Our... more

Peach Season Nearing End

Most growers in Central Alabama are getting really close to ending the 2011 peach season. Only a few varieties remain.... more

Farm, Home, and Wildlife Field Day

Rain did not stop the largest agricultural field day in Alabama this past Saturday. Over 700 people registered and more... more

Pest Alert For Fruit Producers

In 2008 the first detection of a new pest, spotted wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii was found in Santa Cruz... more