Awards through AL-ANREP are voted on by active membership. Applications will be open February 4 – March 4. Applicants must be a paid member of AL-ANREP by the deadline of the award in order to be eligible. Send applications to Adam Maggard at adm0074@auburn.edu.

Membership Awards

Outstanding Adult Education Program Award

This award is to honor the adult programming efforts of AL ANREP educators. Innovative and impactful programs successfully advance Extension outreach toward a new audience, an existing audience in a new way, or some combination of both, while also increasing the stewardship and/or production of Alabama’s natural resources. Applications should document need, a well-designed education and outreach effort, evaluation methods, and program outcomes/impacts. Individual and team efforts are encouraged for consideration. For a team program to be considered, the majority of team members must be AL ANREP members.

Outstanding Youth Education Program Award

This award is to honor the efforts of AL ANREP education efforts toward youth (18 years and younger). Innovative and impactful youth programing successfully advance Extension outreach toward a young audience to increase natural resources awareness, appreciation, and stewardship. Applications should document need, a well-designed education and outreach effort, evaluation methods, and program.

Outstanding Media Product Award

This award is to honor the media efforts of AL ANREP educators. Innovative and impactful media products (i.e. publications, articles, videos, marketing, websites, blogs, etc.) successfully advance Extension’s reach into either a new audience, an existing audience in a new way, or some combination of both, while at the same time increasing the stewardship and/or production of Alabama’s natural resources. Applications should document need, a well-designed education and outreach product, strong editing, graphics, design, evaluation methods, and program outcomes/impacts. Individual and team efforts are encouraged for consideration. For a team program to be considered, the majority of team members must be AL ANREP members.

Service Award

Friends of AL ANREP AWARD

The purpose of this award is to recognize an individual or organization for their support of and enthusiasm for Natural Resources Extension Education at the county, regional, or statewide level in Alabama. Nominations are reviewed by AL ANREP members.

Individual awardees should be someone who has made significant impacts to further natural resources education. They cannot be a member of the state or national ANREP organization. However, they can be a member of any other Extension professional organization as well as a natural resource professional, administrator, educator, or citizen volunteer. Organizational awardees can be any appropriate agency, group, family, or association, excluding any of the Extension professional associations. Ideally, they should be characterized by having a group of individuals (two or more) that have collectively made significant impacts in furthering natural resources education through Extension education programs.

To advance the professional status, public service, and interdisciplinary collaboration of Land Grant and Sea Grant Extension educators and faculty in Alabama by encouraging regular sharing of their successes in natural resource education, and encouraging continuing self-improvement in their knowledge, skills, and practices.

To discuss, develop, sponsor, and promote educational and training programs and activities that will advance the practice of natural resource management and education in Alabama.

To bring together Extension and other professionals who work with natural resources to discuss issues, needs, and opportunities of mutual interest and to facilitate information sharing.

To strengthen communications with and recognition by Extension administration.

College and Major: Auburn University College of Agriculture, Agricultural Science

Hometown: Rogersville, Alabama

Career Goals: After graduation, I would like to own some land for agricultural purposes.

Hobby or Fun Fact: I like to go deer hunting.

Follow Daniel’s Internship Journey

July 3

The past few weeks have been both fun and informative. I have been learning about the use of drones in agriculture, cotton, and soybean pests, soil nutrient stratification, and chemical damage to soybeans. I have been staying busy with farm visits, staff meetings, and insect traps.

Cotton bollworm traps and soybean looper traps have been put out to get a good idea of the pest pressure in the areas of the traps. Cotton bollworm trap sticky pads and pheromones need to be replaced every two weeks, while soybean looper traps need to be replaced every four weeks.

The number of insects on the sticky pads can be viewed via the Arc farm intelligence application. While this is a good way to count the number of insects present, traps have been known to fall off their posts, so checking on them regularly is a good way to make sure they are effectively catching insects.

I look forward to the upcoming plans with my mentors, Ali Gotcher and Cade Grace. In the next few weeks, I plan to check in on the lambs for the 4-H lamb show project, visit the soybean and corn trial plots, continue to collect data with the insect traps, and help with delivery of bulls for North Alabama Bull Evaluation Consignment Sale.

June 5

During the last week in May, I got to help with a soybean trial plot. I picked up the seed that would be used for the trial and delivered it to where it would be planted. The next day, my mentor, Cade Grace, fertilized the field, and later we got the seed in the ground. Each variety of soybean was planted in a strategic spot in the field so that we could easily compare the performance of each.

Pictured below are the many soybean varieties that were used in the trial. There are seeds from four separate companies, with a total of eleven different varieties. A plot plan was developed in order to remember and keep track of the placement of each seed variety. Each variety was planted in the plot twice, generally not right beside each other. This planting technique is to have soil nutrient diversity throughout the plot.

It has been exciting being able to participate in this experiment so far. It is informative and interesting to see the steps and processes of real experiments such as this one. The information we gather will be important for both current and future soybean producers. I look forward to seeing the results of this plot trial.