Environment, Forestry and Agriculture

Not so long ago, the big idea was for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System to build a website and populate it with content that...

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...

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...

Americans love chicken — no surprise here — especially white meat, consuming an average of more than 80 pounds per person per year. Many...

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.

It’s a chilly 42 degrees outside on a November afternoon, but inside a covered “tunnel house” on New South Organic Farm near Moundville the...

There’s oil in them there … corn cobs? A Tuscaloosa-based company certainly thinks so. Inventure Renewables has created a process to take basic waste biomass,...

If there is any question about the value of water, consider that most people would die in three days without it. Necessary for industry,...

Davis Lee understands the challenges of the poultry industry. He raised chickens as a boy growing up in North Carolina in the ’40s and...

Did you know that trees from Alabama may be keeping the lights on at Buckingham Palace? Wood pellets from Alabama and a lot of other...