TOOLKITS
AUGUST 2023 TOOLKIT
YEAR IN REVIEW
On behalf of the FANR team, thank you for your commitment to highlight and spread the word about impactful and cutting-edge research, education, and Extension efforts on your campuses and throughout your communities. This month, we would like to provide a compilation of the previous ten toolkits (September 2022 – July 2023). Each month’s toolkit connects to the key messages that were developed with significant input from our member institutions (Board on Agriculture Assembly’s Strategic Communications Roadmap developed by Forbes Tate Partners, February 2021).
These key messages are:
Investments in agricultural research, education, and Extension:
- result in safer, higher quality food systems.
- make communities stronger and healthier.
- address critical challenges facing agriculture and the environment.
- are vital to safeguarding America’s status as a global leader in innovation.
PAST TOOLKITS
Back To School/Building the Future
Cultivating and Harvesting
Giving Thanks: Stories from our Communities
Health, Wellness and Nutrition
Innovating for the Future: Climate-Smart Solutions
Protecting Water: Enhancing Efficiency and Management
Supporting Farmers and Ranchers: Research, Education, and Extension Working Together
Celebrating Earth Day
Advancing Ag Workforce Development
Land-grant Universities: Growing Urban and Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) to Cultivate Resilience
Increasing Food Security and Safeguarding National Security
SOCIAL MEDIA
TWITTER HASHTAGS AND HANDLES
HASHTAGS
#LandGrantUniversities
#AgIsAmerica
HANDLES
Ag is America |
@AgIsAmerica |
APLU Ag |
@APLU_Ag |
Sec. Vilsack (Secretary of Agriculture) |
@SecVilsack |
USDA |
@USDA |
USDA National Institute of Food & Ag |
@USDA_NIFA |
APLU |
@APLU_News |
Cooperative Extension |
@Ext100Years |
CALENDAR
AUGUST HOLIDAYS
MONTHS
National Catfish Month, #NationalCatfishMonth
National Water Quality Month, #WaterQuality
National Wellness Month, #WellnessMonth #Wellfie
WEEKS
August 6-12 – National Farmers Market Week, #FarmersMarketWeek, #LoveMyMarket
DAYS
August 3 – National Watermelon Day, #NationalWatermelonDay
August 4 – International Beer Day, #InternationalBeerDay
August 5 – National Oyster Day, #NationalOysterDay
August 5 – National Mustard Day, #NationalMustardDay
August 19 – National Potato Day, #NationalPotatoDay
August 19 – World Honeybee Day, #WorldHoneybeeDay
August 22 – World Plant Milk Day, #WorldPlantMilkDay
August 25 – National Park Service Founders Day, #NPSFoundersDay
August 30 – National Beach Day, #NationalBeachDay
August 30 – Anniversary of Second Morrill Act (1890s)