February 8 - Entry forms for the 2023 Auburn University Cotton Variety Trials are now available. Entries can be submitted in in two planting environments, short season and full season. Each environment includes 10 trials. Each environment will be planted as follows:...
February 1 - For the 2023 season, peanuts will be tested in 4 locations for a total of 5 trials. Trials will be planted in 4-row plots and will require 15,000 kernels of seed. Due to space, the number of entries is limited. To enter the 2023 trials, please submit...
February 1 - Entry forms for the 2023 Auburn University Garin Sorghum Variety Trials are now available. Grain sorghum will be late-planted, behind small grains, at the Wiregrass Research and Extension Center in Headland.
February 1, 2023 - Entry forms for the 2023 Auburn University Official Soybean Variety Trials (OVTs) are now available. Entry forms are due by March 17th. Seed is due by March 24th. Entries can be submitted in one or more of the following categories: Early Planted...
During the 2022 Christmas break, Alabama experienced a SEVERE cold snap. What makes this event unusual is how fast temperatures dropped. It went from t-shirt weather to sub-freezing overnight, and temperatures remained below freezing for several days. As a result,...
January 10, 2023 - Entry forms for the 2023 Auburn University Official Corn Variety Trials (OVTs) are now available. Entry forms are due by February 17th. Seed is due by March 1st. Entries can be submitted by region (North, Central, South). The North and South...
January 9 Lint yields and quality have been uploaded for eleven of the on-farm variety trials. January 4 The analytics portion of the Variety Selection Platform has been updated. There are now presets to save time getting to some of the most popular selections....
December 7 Yield data is available for the following OVTs at the Black Belt Research and Extension Center (BBREC) in Marion Junction. Sumter Soil MG4 MG5 MG6 MG7/8 Vaiden Soil MG4 MG5 MG6 MG7/8 Yield data is available for the Escambia County On-Farm trial November 30...
November 16 - Yield data is available for the following on-farm trials. Chilton County Barbour County Dale County Pike County October 18 - Yield data is available for the OVT at the Sand Mountain Research and Extension Center (SMREC) in Crossville. October 12 - Yield...
October 17 Yield data is available for the grain sorghum OVT at the Wiregrass Research and Extension Center (WREC) in Headland. Please note that the season total rainfall for this trial was only 8.66 inches. WREC Sorghum Trial Page WREC Sorghum Analytics
9:00 AM, Tuesday, August 30, 2022 EV Smith Research Center - Plant Breeding Unit Join us as we tour the research conducted at the EV Smith Research Center - Plant Breeding Unit. The field day will include updates Agenda 9:00 AM-9:15 AM - Registration and...
August 17 This season, the Early-Planted MG-4 trial at the EV Smith Research Center (EVSPBU) started off great. However, things took a turn mid-season. In this video, Dr. Eros Francisco - Extension Agronomist, Dr. Kathy Lawrence - Plant Pathologist, Henry Jordan -...
August 12 - A subset of barley varieties was selected for quality testing. Quality testing results are now available on the variety selection platform (under the qualtiy tab). Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center - Barley EV Smith Research Center - Barley...
July 18 - Entry forms for the Auburn University Variety Testing - Small Grain Forage Variety Trials are now available. View last season's data here. The deadline for seed is August 27th. For the 2022-2023 season, small grain forage entries will be evaluated for yield...
August 10 Quality data is now available (variety selection platform only) for the wheat, oat, rye, and triticale trials at the Wiregrass Research and Extension Center in Headland. Each quality variable now has a "top group" data field for early-season, late-season,...
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