Alabama Beef Systems Extension

Join us at the 2026 Auburn University Outreach & Engaged Scholarship Symposium!

We're proud to have two members of the Auburn Beef & Forage Team presenting during the poster session on Wednesday, August 26 at 11:00 a.m. in the Legacy Ballroom at the Hotel at Auburn University & Dixon Conference Center.

🌎 Samantha Bennett, Beef & Forage Outreach Administrator
Expanding Opportunity Through International Outreach: A Successful Internship Model in Animal Sciences

🌱 Dr. Camila Souza, Beef & Forage Postdoctoral Fellow
Beef and Forage Field Days: A Model for Extension Impact in Alabama

Whether you're interested in Extension, international engagement, student success, or producer education, we'd love to visit with you. Stop by our posters, ask questions, and learn more about how Auburn's Beef & Forage Team is making an impact across Alabama and around the world.

🕚 Poster Session: Wednesday, August 26 | 11:00 a.m.
📍 Hotel at Auburn University & Dixon Conference Center – Legacy Ballroom

We hope to see you there!
https://outreach.auburn.edu/facultyengagement/symposium-program-2026.php

Producers, mark your calendars for next Friday, August 28!

Don't miss the 2026 Herdbuilder Replacement Female Sale with our friends at Alabama BCIA!

Led by Michelle Elmore and the Alabama Extension Animal Science & Forages team, this year's sale features a quality selection of spring- and fall-calving bred heifers, including Angus, SimAngus, Brangus, and Brahman-crosses.

Whether you're looking to expand your herd or improve your genetics, this is a sale you won't want to miss.

📖 View the full catalog here:

Herdbuilder Replacement Female Sale - Alabama Cooperative Extension System The Herdbuilder Replacement Female Sale is a marketing program conducted by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System's Animal Science and Forages team and the Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association.

We're so pleased to see so many members of our team highlighted in the Department of Animal Sciences at Auburn University's Summer Newsletter! Check it out to see what all we've been up to! 😎

The Upchurch Update - AU Animal Sciences Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/7d66f17a83d1/auburn-university-animal-sciences-newsletter-january-12753338

As we make the transition into fall, take a look through all of the research, teaching, and Extension activities with us from this summer, and save the date for our alumni awards and cookout on September 25 at the Auburn University Beef Teaching Unit. We hope to see you there!

Gulf Coast Cattlemen's Conference, get ready! Our friends from Watt Cattle Company, LLC are currently setting up panels for Dr. Maggie Justice's and Kent Stanford's herd development talk tomorrow with live animals. It's going to be a fun one! 🤠

This Friday down in Gulf Coast marks the very end of our Cattlemen's Conferences hosted alongside the Alabama Cattlemen's Association! We've enjoyed every minute of it and can't wait for this one last opportunity to connect with you before summer ends!

Best part is there is still time to register today! Don't miss out!
https://www.bamabeef.org/events/2026/gulf-coast-cattlemens-conference22

Dr. Soren Rodning, Extension Veterinarian, joined us tonight from the Auburn Animal Sciences Department to educate producers about the New World Screwworm as well as the Asian Longhorned Tick. We are grateful to the Morgan County Cattlemen's Association for the great meal and help promoting this meeting to their membership!

Our crew has stayed busy, busy, busy the last couple of weeks!

🥛 Students, faculty, and staff journeyed to Madison, Wisconsin for American Society of Animal Science. The team made the most of the trip and even toured USDA’s Dairy Forage Research Center!

🐄 Members of our Extension and outreach team traveled to DarLin Farms to learn about sorghum-sudangrass in dairy grazing systems at a field day hosted by our friends at Alabama Farmers Federation

🥩 Our series of Cattlemen’s Conferences with Alabama Cattlemen's Association continued on in Enterprise, Valley Grande & Wetumpka.

🌱 Sample days started for a crabgrass grazing project at E.V. Smith Research Center

✏️ Alabama ag teachers gathered at the Beef Teaching Unit on campus to learn about BQA and how to teach best practices to students in the classroom.

☀️ Several collection days took place for the Alabama Pasture Performance Project across the state. The APPP team met with producers on their farms and collected soil, hay, and feed samples for analysis back in the lab!

While it's been a busy summer so far we couldn't be more grateful for all of the opportunities to connect and learn!

In 2025, row crop producers faced regulatory changes regarding the widely used herbicide dicamba, which was effectively removed from legal use for over-the-top applications that season. On Feb. 6, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) once again allowed the registration of three new dicamba products, this time with new stipulations. Alabama Extension specialist, Dr. David Russell, is helping lead the way in guiding growers through the new labels and requirements.

Read more on his suggestions here: https://wire.auburn.edu/content/agriculture/2026/05/dicamba0513.php