On behalf of APLU’s Office of Food, Agriculture & Natural Resources, thank you for your dedication to highlighting your university’s impactful agricultural research, education, and Extension efforts that profoundly benefits local communities and our nation.  This month, we provide a compilation of the previous 11 toolkits and Spotlights. We welcome your feedback.

"Growing Together: Conversations with CEOs” showcases Presidents and CEOs of national agricultural associations, commodity groups, and other organizations and explores their powerful synergies with land-grant universities. Through conversations with leaders, this new interview series examines how organizations strengthened their impact in partnerships with Colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources’ research, education, and Cooperative Extension.  These interviews also highlight emerging opportunities to leverage collaboration, drive innovation, and serve all Americans.

Steve Censky, Chief Executive Officer, American Soybean Association
Ted McKinney, Chief Executive Officer, The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
Jill Bramble, President and CEO of National 4-H Council
Zippy Duvall, President, American Farm Bureau Federation

Avian Influenza
Public and land-grant universities across the nation are at the forefront of research, education, and Extension efforts to develop and disseminate research findings that can prevent or minimize avian influenza outbreaks.

National Ag Week (March 16-22, 2025)
Public and land-grant universities across the nation champion agriculture every day through their research, education, and Extension.

The National Land-grant Impacts Database (NIDB) is the nation’s most extensive repository of the land-grant system’s collective impact statements in research, education, and Extension. Impact statements are used for variety of purposes, including advocacy, accountability, and education. We encourage you to submit your impact statements throughout the year so APLU, NIFA, and other stakeholders have access to timely impacts from your university.

• Access the database.
• View the featured educational materials.
• Just getting started? Check out the NIDB Jump Start document.
• Need to add or remove an inputter? Contact agcomms@aplu.org.

Looking for pre-made stories to feature? Check out:

• Land-grant Impacts
  Scroll down to "View by Institution" and click your university's name. Only institutions who submitted impacts to the National Impacts Database in 2024 are listed. This page features research and Extension impacts.
• Multistate Research Funds Impacts
  Scroll down to "Filter by Institution" on the sidebar and click your university's name. This page features research impacts.

Feel free to reach out to us with specific posts that you would like @AgIsAmerica to share. Please email your request to Kim Scotto at agcomms@aplu.org or use #AgIsAmerica. 

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