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Impact statements highlight the accomplishments of our Extension efforts during the previous year.

The latest impact statements are available below in both text and infographic format.

Health & Well-being

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Virtual Program Delivery helps

Address Chronic Disease (2022)
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Retrofitting Watermelon Buses to

Improve Food Safety and Produce Handling (2022)
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Bringing farm-fresh food to

Kent County’s vulnerable communities (2022)
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Across Delaware

Eating Smart & Moving More (2021)
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Reducing COVID-19

Within Delaware’s Haitian communities (2021)
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Through Lunchtime Physical Activity

Addressing Chronic Disease (2021)
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Helping Delaware’s youth

build healthy habits (2020)
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Guiding produce growers marketers 

through the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
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Improving the health of Delawareans,

one workplace at a time
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Helping Low-income Delawareans

Eat Better for Less (2019)
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Teaching

Mindfulness (2019)
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Promoting farm health and vitality through 

Mental health training (2019)

Sustainable Agriculture Systems

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Giving new farmers confidence to get started with the

Beginning Farmer Training Program (2022)
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Exploring Cole Crops as

Alternative Processing Vegetables (2022)
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Converting Poultry Houses into

Indoor Growing Facilities (2022)
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Improving Proftability through 

Successful Lambing and Kidding (2021)
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In Delaware 

Helping Soybeans Grow (2021)
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Integrated Weed Management: 

Reducing herbicide resistance (2020)
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Better beef through

quality assurance certification (2020)
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Timely advice for diverse audiences

Weekly Crop Update (2019)
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Developing skills to better manage small ruminants

Small Ruminant Production (2019)
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Controlling pests in

Green roof systems (2019)
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Teaching best practices

Mid-Atlantic Crop Management School (2019)
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Educate, Engage and Empower:

Women in Agriculture (2019)

4-H, Personal & Economic Development

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Hatching STEM thinking with

4-H Embryology (2022)
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For Delaware’s youth

Scoring better health (2021)
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Extension volunteers

Make waves in their communities (2021)
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4-H Youth

STEAM Experiences (2020)
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Virtual environment opportunities for

Teens leaders (2020)
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Smart Choice / Smart Use:

Increasing health insurance literacy (2020)
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4-H: Creating the

leaders of tomorrow (2019)
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Teaching youth about the dangers of smoking

Escape the Vape (2019)
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Efforts toward

Obesity Prevention in Delaware (2019)

Environmental Stewardship

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Flexible opportunities offered:

nutrient continuing education (2020)
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Serving the community through the

UD Plant Diagnostic Clinic (2020)
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Virtual tours allow 

hort education at a distance (2020)
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Healthy forest, healthy farm,

healthy family (2019)
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Urban horticulture 

Nutrient management certification (2019)

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