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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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Impact button for Retrofitting watermelon busses with rubber and vinyl (instead of traditional carpeting) offers a durable, affordable and easily-sanitized way of reducing watermelon damage during harvest.

Virtual Program Delivery helps

Address Chronic Disease (2022)
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Impact button for Retrofitting watermelon busses with rubber and vinyl (instead of traditional carpeting) offers a durable, affordable and easily-sanitized way of reducing watermelon damage during harvest.

Retrofitting Watermelon Buses to

Improve Food Safety and Produce Handling (2022)
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Produce for sale

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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A person holding their arthritic knee

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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Impact Statement button for Helping Low-income Delawareans Eat Better for Less (2019)

Helping Low-income Delawareans

Eat Better for Less (2019)
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Impact Statement button for Teaching Mindfulness (2019)

Teaching

Mindfulness (2019)
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Impact Statement button for Promoting farm health and vitality through Mental Health Training (2019)

Promoting farm health and vitality through 

Mental health training (2019)

Sustainable Agriculture Systems

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Impact button for Retrofitting watermelon busses with rubber and vinyl (instead of traditional carpeting) offers a durable, affordable and easily-sanitized way of reducing watermelon damage during harvest.

Giving new farmers confidence to get started with the

Beginning Farmer Training Program (2022)
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Brussels sprouts growing

Exploring Cole Crops as

Alternative Processing Vegetables (2022)
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A poultry house on Delmarva

Converting Poultry Houses into

Indoor Growing Facilities (2022)
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Two goats

Improving Proftability through 

Successful Lambing and Kidding (2021)
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A person holding their arthritic knee

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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Impact Statement button for Weekly Crop Update: Timely advice for diverse audiences (2019)

Timely advice for diverse audiences

Weekly Crop Update (2019)
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Impact Statement button for Developing skills to better manage small ruminants (2019)

Developing skills to better manage small ruminants

Small Ruminant Production (2019)
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Impact Statement button for Controlling pests in green roof systems (2019)

Controlling pests in

Green roof systems (2019)
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Impact Statement button for Teaching best practices: 2019 Mid-Atlantic Crop Management School (2019)

Teaching best practices

Mid-Atlantic Crop Management School (2019)
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Impact Statement button for Educate, Engage and Empower: Women in Agriculture.

Educate, Engage and Empower:

Women in Agriculture (2019)

4-H, Personal & Economic Development

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Kids enjoying the embryology program at a local school

Hatching STEM thinking with

4-H Embryology (2022)
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A child playing soccer

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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Impact Statement button for 4-H: Creating the leaders of tomorrow.

4-H: Creating the

leaders of tomorrow (2019)
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Impact Statement button for Escape the Vape: Teaching youth about the dangers of smoking (2019)

Teaching youth about the dangers of smoking

Escape the Vape (2019)
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Impact Statement button for Obesity Prevention Efforts (2019)

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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Impact Statement button for Healthy forest, healthy farm, healthy family (2019)

Healthy forest, healthy farm,

healthy family (2019)
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Impact Statement button for Delaware nutrient management certification for urban horticulture (2019)

Urban horticulture 

Nutrient management certification (2019)

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