agriculture

If you were looking for an excuse to visit one of the state’s farmers’ markets, how about “Sweet Grown Alabama" Day? The event celebrates farmers and the state’s fruits, vegetables and other products. The weekend will include special events, where Sweet Grown Alabama members will offer giveaways, taste tests and discounts

The Blount County Extension is holding an educational session focusing a specific audience in agriculture. The 2025 Women in AG workshop will include speakers on handling cattle, estate planning, and driving a tractor aimed at female farmers working in the state.

Alabama cattle and forage producers are being invited to "beef up" their herd and pasture management. 2024 Beef and Forage Field Days dates and locations included April 23 at the Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center and May 3 at the E.V. Smith Research Center.

Alabama cattle and forage producers are being invited to "beef up" their herd and pasture management. 2024 Beef and Forage Field Days offer producers inside access to some of the latest industry research and information.

An assistant professor in the Auburn University Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology recently found evidence that termites living millions of years ago mated the same way termites do today.

The Biden administration is spending $150 million to help owners of small parcels of forestland partner with private companies willing to pay them for carbon offsets and other environmental credits. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the program Tuesday in Georgia at a meeting of Black landowners from eight Southern states.

Farmers in Alabama will have the chance to vote on a peanut referendum today. This poll currently happens every three years. It’s open to those who engaged in the production of peanuts in Alabama during 2020, 2021 and 2022

The University of Alabama is leading a study on irrigation-fed farms in the Deep South. Less than 4 percent of Alabama’s farms are irrigation-fed, though…

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Auburn University is receiving $43 million in federal financing for a new agricultural science facility aimed at improving food…

The Alabama Legislature is back in Montgomery working on the General Fund Budget. But lawmakers are also turning their attention to the scandal that has…