The Pollinator
“See those bumblebees on the sunflowers?” Dr. George Koulianos asks underneath a blue sky near the southernmost tip of Alabama. “This is what I...
Black Belt Green
Teaming with former first lady Marsha Folsom, this Seattle couple, who made bamboo a mainstay in home flooring in the U.S., are forging another bamboo coup — in Alabama’s Black Belt.
Creating the Perfect Tractor for Cuba
Horace Clemmons and Saul Berenthal are at a tradeshow in Cuba this month to promote an Alabama-based tractor company they plan to build near...
Louis Lazzari: An Economic History of Family Farming
Despite encroaching residential and commercial development, Baldwin County’s Belforest community remains predominantly a patchwork of family farms, most rooted in the late 1800s. Third-generation...
EPA Obama Environment Regulations Gets Heavy
When it comes to the environmental regulation landscape in the United States, one thing can be said with absolute moral certainty — uncertainty abounds.
In...
ACES – Higher Yields with Social Media
Not so long ago, the big idea was for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System to build a website and populate it with content that...
Canola Crop – 100-Year-Old Farm Yields a New Crop
In 2007, Ernst Cebert, Ph.D., a research scientist at Alabama A&M University, visited Bridgeforth Farms in Tanner. He wanted to share his recent research...
The Farmer’s Chief Executive
Jimmy Parnell grew up knowing what it meant to work literally until the cows came home. As a child at his family’s Chilton County...
Chicken a la Cubana
Americans love chicken — no surprise here — especially white meat, consuming an average of more than 80 pounds per person per year. Many...
Bay Wood Products – A Big Piece of Wood Work
Making a wooden pallet is not a high-end craft. But building and running the biggest pallet, dunnage and custom crate business in Alabama and the Mississippi/Florida Gulf Coast is a feat that really stacks up.