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LEVEL 3: Mike, Butler Cunningham, Explanations "Bulter Cunninghman" referst to the title of a professorship that is given for a few years to a professor in the College of Agriculture of Auburn University in Auburn, AL. Mr. Eugene Butler and Dr. Emory Cunningham were the founding editors of "Southern Living" magazine and several other periodicals. Dr. Cunnigham graduated from Auburn University. They endowed the professorship, and it is named in their honor. The full name of the profesorship is "The Butler Cunningham Eminent Professor in Agriculture and the Environment". About 2003, Claude Boyd was named the Butler Cunningham Professor. The position requires that he do work apart from his normal work specifically aimed at topics of agriculture and the environment. To meet the requirements of the BC positions, Boyd hosted a series of three conferences on three topics related to the mission. For these conferences, Boyd collaborated with Wayne Shell, Emeritus Professor of Fisheries and former Chair of the Department of Fisheries. Wayne Shell had much input into the subject matter and attendees of the conferences. Shell and Boyd worked to make sure the conferences were national in scope, not just Southern, and that the conferences addressed real national issues such as water management. As part of fulfilling the needs of the Butler Cunningham Professorship through this series of conferences, Boyd suggested a website with the results of the conferences and with other Butler Cunningham material. I helped with the management of the conferences and with the operation of the conferences while they occurred. I suggested a few of the participants. I collected the submissions before and after the conference. I did all the work on the website myself. The brochures are below. All attendees, all sessions, and all the papers can be found on the website. In addition to the conference results, on the website are a series of essays on topics relevant to agriculture in the United States generally and particularly to agriculture in the South, such as on government subsidies. I wrote all these essays. Wayne Shell suggested some topics but I picked most of the topics and wrote all the essays. Most of the essays are on the body of web pages, and so cannot by duplicated here. I include a sample of documents that stand alone. All the essays come from a lot of research. After the conferences, and especially after I left in 2011, sadly the website was not kept current. The original work can be found at the URL (Internet address) listed below. I make a point of my work because it shows that I can carry out a conference, do all the work for a website, and can write reports on research topics. For the research on these topics, I received much help from officers in the Department of Agriculture, for which I thank them. http://www.ag.auburn.edu/auxiliary/BC
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