Outreach and Extension | Auburn University

Reaching Across Alabama

Auburn partners with government, industry and communities to deliver research-based educational programs that improve the health and economic well-being of all Alabamians. From farming and finances to nutrition and food safety, we take practical expertise to every corner of the state.

Extension

For more than a century, we’ve worked with our land-grant partners at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University to turn research into real solutions for communities in every corner of the state.

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Outreach

We serve communities far beyond our campus with outreach programs that help citizens, schools, governments and businesses build skills, develop new knowledge and achieve a higher quality of life.

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Innovation that Works

$26 million

Annual outreach and extension spending

67 counties

Extension employees are in every Alabama county

$6.3 billion

Statewide economic impact of Auburn and its alumni in FY2022

Impact for Alabama

Work that changes the world begins at home. Our research, education and outreach make Alabama a safer, healthier, happier place to live.

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New Realm Brewing-Auburn beer to support Student Veterans Association

In its ongoing mission to serve various organizations and the pursuit to continuously seek exciting collaborations through craft beer, New Realm Brewing–Auburn and the Horst Schulze School of Hospitality Management is excited to team up with the Auburn Student Veterans Association (ASVA) for a joint beer release called "Operation Orange Peel American Wheat" that will positively affect both organizations.

Longtime Auburn cotton entomologist recognized

Cotton entomologist Ron Smith was recently named a 2026 Hall of Fame inductee by the Southern IPM Center, recognizing his decades of leadership in the field.

A group of Alabama Extension agents and specialists with their Australian hosts standing in front of a piece of farm machinery.

Alabama Extension team travels Down Under to exchange ideas on farming

Half a world away in Queensland, Australia, a group of Alabama Cooperative Extension System specialists and agents this spring toured the Bundaburg region in search of fresh ideas they could bring home to Alabama farmers. In visiting a dozen farms and research sites, the team found familiar challenges — water scarcity, rising production costs and the constant pressure to produce more with fewer resources.