Normal, Dec. 19, 2003--- The new year marks the final phase of the three-year multistate grant “Clean Hands, Healthy People.”  In 2001, Alabama Extension Health and Nutrition Specialist Dr. Donnie Cook and other Extension specialists from Hawaii, Idaho, Washington and West Virginia were awarded a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  A feature of the grant is Germ City, an interactive, science-based program that visually demonstrates the importance of proper hand washing.  (More...)

New Year’s Day Football and Food 

AUBURN, Dec. 18, 2003—As New Year's Day approaches, the thought of football thrills some and leaves others shaking their heads. (More...)

Auburn Researchers Weigh Benefits of Fish With Mercury Contamination

Auburn, Dec. 18, 2003 --- Together they make a formidable team. 

Auburn University Nutrition and Food Science Professor Dr. Margaret Craig-Schmidt is a nutritional biochemist specializing in the health effects of omega-3 fatty acids.  Dr. Chris Newland, Auburn University Alumni Professor of psychology, is a behavioral neuroscientist who has spent most of the past decade exploring the toxic effects of methyl mercury. (More...)

P.W. Brown Retires From Extension After 31 Years of Service

Auburn, Dec. 18, 2003---P. W. Brown, Extension affirmative action programming officer, will retire December 31 after 31 years of service. (More...)

Buyers Turn Out for North Alabama Bull and Heifer Sale

Auburn, Dec 18, 2003--Buyers from across Alabama and throughout the South turned out for the 31st Annual North Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association Bull Evaluation and Select Heifer Sale Dec. 13 at the Cullman Stockyards.  (More...)

Robert Burdett Retiring From Extension System After 35 Years of Service

Auburn, Dec.17, 2003---Dr. Robert A. Burdett will retire from the Alabama Cooperative Extension System Dec. 31 after 35 years of service.  He has spent his entire Extension career working in seed technology with the Alabama Crop Improvement Association.  He was appointed as an Extension agronomist in 1968.  (More...)

Harry B. Strawn Retiring from Extension System After 35 Years of Service

Auburn, Dec.17, 2003---Harry B. Strawn, an economist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, will retire Dec. 31. (More...)

Fish Warning Complicates Healthy Living Quest

Auburn, Dec. 16, 2003 --- Healthier living may have just gotten harder. 

The Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are drafting a warning that advises pregnant women and children to limit their intake of tuna and other fish and shellfish to 12 ounces a week, roughly two or three servings. (More...)

Vaccination Not Only Way to Help Prevent Flu          

Auburn, Dec. 16, 2003---With the flu epidemic in full swing and vaccine in limited supply, consumers must take precautions to avoid getting sick. (More...)

Producers Learn New Techniques at Beef Management Field Day

Auburn, Dec. 17, 2003 --- Alabama beef cattle producers had the chance to see the latest in fencing and electronic identification programs at a management field day Dec. 16 at the Auburn University Bull Test Facility. (More...)

Blaylock Retiring After More than a Quarter Century of Service

Auburn, Dec. 17, 2003 --- Robert E. “Butch” Blaylock’s livelihood has always depended on agriculture. He was raised on a livestock and row-crop farm near the delta town of Cleveland, Miss., and he has spent the last 28 years working with the Alabama beef cattle industry. (More...)

Dairy Extension Specialist Retiring    

Auburn, Dec. 17, 2003 --- Dr. Buelon R. (Pete) Moss, a dairy specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, is retiring this month. He has seen more of the world than most working in the dairy industry, and he carries many memories of people he has known along the way.  (More...)

Jones Retiring From Work in Extension Meat Science

Auburn, Dec. 17, 2003 --- In his spare time, Dr. Bill Jones, a meat scientist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, enjoys hunting, fishing and playing golf. But one talent he has developed is a little surprising to some. (More...)

Extension Presents Superior Service Awards

Columbiana, Dec. 12, 2003---The Alabama Cooperative Extension System held its annual awards luncheon recently at the 4-H Youth and Development Center in Columbiana.  Extension Director Dr. Gaines Smith presented the 2003 Superior Service and Length of Service Awards.  (More...)

College Job Leads to Lifetime Career for Extension Entomologist

Auburn, Dec. 11, 2003 --- Dr. John McVay’s lifelong fascination with insects started quite by accident while he was an undergraduate at Florence State University (now the University of North Alabama) working toward a degree in zoology and history.  (More...)

Pragmatism, Mission-Oriented Goals Underscore Extension Scientist’s Career

Auburn, Dec. 11, 2003 --- Reflecting on his Extension career, Dr. Michael Eckman, who will retire in December, considers it his great fortune to have encountered two professors early in his life who put him on the right track both intellectually and professionally.  (More...)

Soymilk May Become Staple School Menu Item

Auburn, Dec. 10, 2003 --- Got soymilk?  More and more of the nation’s schools will be answering yes to that question if the American Soybean Association and others persuade Congress to include soymilk as an option in school lunch programs.  (More...)

Regional Animal Scientist Tommy Brown Retiring

Auburn, Dec. 10, 2003 --- Cattle have been a part of Tommy Brown’s entire life. Brown, a regional animal scientist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, grew up around his grandfather’s cattle and then showed steers as a 4-H club member.  (More...)

Curtis Ends 34-Year Extension Career

Auburn, Dec. 8, 2003 --- Larry Curtis, Extension biosystems engineer and Auburn University professor of biosystems engineering, will retire in December, ending a 34-year Extension career. (More...)

Management Field Day and Open House Set for Auburn Bull Test   

Auburn, Dec. 4, 2003 --- A beef cattle management field day will be held Tuesday, Dec. 16 beginning at 1 p.m. at the Auburn University Bull Test Facility. The field day will feature demonstrations of new fencing, automatic waterers and electronic identification tags.  (More...)

North Alabama Bull Sale Slated for December

Auburn, Dec. 4, 2003 --- The 31^st North Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association Bull Sale will be held Dec. 13 at the Cullman Stockyards in Cullman.  Sixty-seven bulls representing five breeds will pass through the sale ring.  (More...)

Top Forage Professionals Featured at 2003 Alabama Forage Conference

Auburn, Dec. 4, 2003 --- Alabama farmers have the opportunity to hear from a number of national leaders in forage production at the 2003 Alabama Forage Conference. (More...)

Extension Spearheading Statewide Agri-Tourism Effort

Auburn, Dec. 3, 2003 --- Working with three other public and private partners, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System is spearheading a statewide effort to help small communities capitalize on two of their most abundant but frequently overlooked assets --- agriculture and tourism.  (More...)

Farmer Finds Salvation in Christmas Tree Farming

Auburn, Dec. 2, 2003 --- Eighteen years ago, Covington County farmer Willie Cottle was at the end of his rope. 

A mechanic by day, he supplemented his income by raising hogs, cows and a couple of row crops.  He also operated a plant nursery for a while. (More...)

Alabama Farm Safety  Education Program Addressing Safe Tractor Operations

Auburn, AL---In the last month, two Alabamians have been killed in tractor overturn accidents. According to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, 75 percent of all farm fatalities are the result of tractor implement incidents.  About 47 percent of all farm fatalities are the result of tractor overturn. (More...)

Following Cattle From Pasture to Plate

Auburn, Dec. 3, 2003 --- On a recent fall afternoon, Chuck Madaris of Circle E Farms in Fort Deposit and his nephew, Tyler, were working a new group of stocker calves.  In addition to vaccinating them, Tyler was tagging the calves with a new type of tag. (More...)     

Extension’s Upgraded Farm *A *Syst Program Ready for Farmers

Auburn, AL--- The upgraded Alabama Cooperative Extension Farm*A*Syst program, which addresses environmental stewardship on proper pesticide application and handling, animal manure management and the reduction of soil sedimentation, is now available to farmers. (More...)