Featured photo: ChaNaè Bradley, senior communications specialist for Fort Valley State University’s Cooperative Extension Program, facilitates a post-disaster recovery group discussion during the Farm Stress Summit in Statesboro, Georgia. By ChaNaè Bradley FVSU Extension conducts outreach and research on farm stress Fort Valley State University’s Cooperative Extension personnel participated in the 2025 Farm Stress Summit held in Statesboro, Georgia. The event took place at …
1890 Extension Transforming Lives
From the 2023 1890 Extension Transforming Lives Report: The dynamic work of Cooperative Extension at the 1890 Land-grant Universities is changing lives and connecting people to vital information. Extension professionals have the unique responsibility of translating federal and state dollars into educational outreach that advances the well-being of their states’ diverse audiences, particularly those with limited social and economic resources. …
Agriculture and natural resource management in western United States
Climate information – historical, real-time and predictive – is vital for the sustainable management of agriculture and natural resources. Climate change poses major challenges to agriculture and natural resources in the western United States. Climate data are key to practices, tools, legislation, programs and policies that protect and enhance water, soil and air. With so many different entities collecting climate …