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Re: Organic Grass Fed Dairy: Demographics, Management, and Cost of Production
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Re: Going the distance: considerations for the use of manure pipelines
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Re: Breeding Carrots for Production, Resilience, Flavor and Fun in Organic Systems
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Re: Birth & Beyond: Advancing Equity, Nutrition, and Food Security
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Re: USDA-ARS and WSSA Weed Science Webinar (April 5 - June 7)
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Re: USDA-ARS and WSSA Weed Science Webinar (April 5 - June 7)
Hi Aaron, I can definitely add the recordings after the event.
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Proposed Scientific Questions to Inform the Development of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030: Available for Public Comment April 15 to May 16!
HHS and USDA will accept written comments on the proposed questions from April 15 to May 16, 2022.
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Re: Zea Mays: An Introduction to the History and Culture of Corn and Maize
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Central State University Professor Featured on The Sweaty Penguin Podcast
Dr. Brandy Phipps Speaks on Sustainability in the Cannabis Industry Wilberforce, OH — Central State University Assistant Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health, Brandy Phipps, Ph.D., was recently featured on The Sweaty Penguin, a comedy environmental podcast, in partnership with Peril and Promise, a PBS/WNET public media initiative on climate change. The Sweaty Penguin invited Dr. Phipps to join the conversation to discuss her research which focuses on biomolecules in plant extracts and...
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Re: Organic Dry Pea and Lentil Adaptation to South Carolina for Plant-based Protein Production: NIFA-OREI project update
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Re: What Does the Future Hold for Corn and Maize? Webinar
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Re: Changes in manure management between CEAP I & II
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Re: USDA-ARS and WSSA Weed Science Webinar (April 5 - June 7)
For those who could not attend the presentations or would like to rewatch a presentation, all previously held webinars have been recorded for viewing on demand and can be found on the Webinar Series webpage: https://go.usa.gov/xzHja
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Re: NEXTGEN Program Overview Webinar
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Celebrating EXCITE Vaccine in Education Projects Reaching Over 11 Million People!
We are celebrating EXCITE Vaccine Education Projects reaching over 11 million people through their 1st year. After calculating the data from the June program reports, EXCITE total reach came to 11,201,951 people! Bringing crucial Vaccine Education to this number of people during a challenging year is a significant accomplishment for the EXCITE project. This figure demonstrates Extension's ability to reach hard-to-reach populations and the value of the system's boots-on-the-ground efforts.
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Info Session for the NEW EXCITE Funding Opportunity
Register HERE for our September 22, 2022 Project Info Session The EXCITE national program team is happy to announce the EXCITE program is continuing! The CDC, NIFA, and the Extension Foundation will support projects in our LGU Cooperative Extension communities to address adult immunization education. This opportunity is open to all Land Grant institutions regardless of previous EXCITE participation. As a reminder, EXCITE is a nationwide response by U.S. Cooperative Extension made possible...
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Re: Keep Your Food Safe & Fresh: Simple Canning & Preservation Tips
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Extension Foundation Selected by USDA-NIFA as Technical Provider for NEXTGEN Funding Opportunity
The primary goal of the From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals Program (NEXTGEN) is to enable 1890 Land-grant institutions, 1994 Land-grant institutions, Alaska Native-serving institutions and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, Hispanic-serving institutions, and insular area institutions of higher education located in the U.S. territories to engage, recruit, retain, train, and support students to help build and sustain the...
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Re: USDA’s Agricultural Research Service to Host “Egg Handling, Safety, And Preparation Tips For The Holidays” Q&A on Facebook
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Sharing is Caring with Fire Ant Venom
Venom is associated with being harmful, but red imported fire ants are using their venom for its medicinal benefits by sharing the toxic substance with their nestmates, according to a study published in the Journal of Insect Physiology . Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists from the agency's Biological Control of Pests Research Unit and Southern Insect Management Research Unit in Stoneville, Mississippi, discovered a new way that fire ants use their venom to prevent diseases in...
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Climate Resilience Professional Development Opportunities During the January 2023 Impact Collaborative Summit
The Extension Foundation Impact Collaborative Summit starts next week and anyone from member institutions is invited to attend the keynote sessions and a special panel by the USDA Climate Hub and NOAA CAP/RISA ! The 2023 Summit will have a special focus on Climate Resilience in partnership with the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy’s (ECOP) Climate Program Action Team. The purpose is to catalyze Cooperative Extension’s awareness and capacity to implement programming that will...
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"Bridging the GAPS: Approaches to Treating Water On Farms" Curriculum Available as Flipping Book
“Bridging the GAPS: Approaches to Treating Water on Farms” - a curriculum designed to help producers understand and address the regulatory requirements for ag water treatment in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) - has been reissued in a flipping book format by the Extension Foundation. Preventing foodborne illness and protecting public health are critically important to producers. Sanitary irrigation water is also mandated by the USDA; producers are required to monitor, treat, and...
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Resilient Agriculture: Weather Ready publication available on flipping book
Resilient Agriculture: Weather Ready Farms has been reissued as a flipping book by the Extension Foundation. The publication was created by a team of Extension professionals to help the agricultural industry become more resilient to weather extremes, climate variability, and climate change. Based on the Weather Ready Farms model developed by Nebraska Extension, the publication focuses primarily on field crop farms and producers in the Great Plains and Midwest regions of the United States.
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NEW: National Extension Tourism (NET) Conference Proceedings Available
The Extension Foundation has added a new title to its library that documents a wide array of tourism-related applied research and outreach programs. The National Extension Tourism 2021 Conference Proceedings - published with support from the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development Center (NERCRD) - is now available online. The mission of the National Extension Tourism network (NET) is to integrate research, education, and outreach within Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant to support...
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Success at the 2023 Impact Collaborative Summit!
The Impact Collaborative conducted a fantastic three-day Summit centered around Climate Resilience on January 17, 18, and 19th! Twenty-eight new Project and Program teams across Cooperative Extension representing thirty-four institutions attended the Project Acceleration Summit via Zoom This was one of our largest Summits to date, with 130 people in attendance. D uring the three days, teams attended special keynote speaker sessions and were connected with skills, tools, resources, Coaches,...
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View the Impact Collaborative Summit Climate Resiliency Keynote Speaker Sessions and Panel
The 2023 Impact Collaborative Summit had a special focus on Climate Resilience in collaboration with the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy's (ECOP) Climate Program Action Team and included Keynote speaker sessions to inspire and inform participants on how climate resiliency can be integrated into their Extension projects and programs. Keynote speaker sessions and panelists at the Summit included a Climate update from NIFA, a special panel by the USDA Climate Hub and NOAA...
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NIFA Invests $9.4M in Urban Agricultural Production REE Initiative
NIFA has announced funding of more than $9.4 million for 12 projects through the Urban, Indoor, and Other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education and Extension Initiative. This initiative provides grants for research, education and Extension work to solve key problems of urban, indoor and emerging agricultural systems. The awardees are: University of Alabama, Birmingham; University of California, Davis; Cornell University; University of Delaware; University of Florida;...