Getting ready to harvest wheat at the Cullars Rotation. Only dogfennel growing at soil pH of 4.5 🌾

Super glad to have Alexa as an intern this summer!

Congrats to CSES student Lili Tucker on being named marshal for Auburn Agriculture at summer commencement! 🐅 Lili will be moving to the Philippines after graduation to serve in the Peace Corps.

My #CoverCrop display for the #VAAgExpo. Cereal rye suppressing Palmer amaranth and common ragweed at high biomass levels

Which ones are boron deficient?

Differing severities of potash deficiency. When we say “no potassium”, we mean for over 110 years. Soil test K is about 30 lbs per acre.

Congratulations to Alabama Extension’s Dr. Steve Li and Gerry Thompson! They were honored tonight for their outstanding efforts toward Alabama farmers.💚 Read more here: alfafarmers.org/federation-hon…

New video on the Old Rotation! youtu.be/jhOy_OALgtY Auburn Agriculture

An eventful day ⛅️ Transplanting cabbage 🌱 Weighing peanuts 🥜 and Puppies 🐶

Amazed at what cotton breeders have achieved over the last century. The plot on the right has had no nitrogen fertilizer, no cover crops, and has been planted in cotton every year since 1896…but it STILL yields over a bale of cotton per acre.

Our results of the SASES Meeting -Will Rich: 1st place in Internship Poster Competition -Steven Mai: 2nd place in Manuscript Competition and 2nd place in Visual Presentation Competition -Evie Moellering: 3rd place in Undergraduate Research Oral Presentation

FL405 and FL406 are early cereal rye varieties in the pipeline to replace FL401. We will have better control of seed certification and improved disease resistance in these varieties. Elbon for comparison.

Happy cover crop season! 🍀

Crimson clover / hairy vetch cover crop in 1) complete fertility, 2) no N, 3) no P, and 4) no K plots at the Cullars Rotation (est. 1911). My best explanation for poor performance in the ‘no N’ plot is the lower OM…1.3% in top 10 cm, compared to 2% in complete fertility.

Aboveground and below ground. #covercrop

Another aboveground and below ground! #covercrop

Put a few holes in the ground today. 🚜

The difference is subtle, but plots on the right have not had a sulfur application in >100 years. Slightly more yellowing in the top growth for these plants.

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