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Extension:
If you questions or comments about the following educational
resources, please contact Robert
"Bobby" Grisso.
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New Extension Publications: |
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Two factsheets on FALL - NEW
Preventing Work Place Falls (PDF)
Preventing Falls In and Around Homes (PDF)
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Precision Farming Tool: Variable-Rate Application (VRA) - in review (PDF) |
User Guide for the Tractor Performance Spreadsheet - in development (PDF) |
Safe Handling of Livestock - in development (PDF) |
Accurate Application and Placement of Chemicals on Turfgrass - in review (PDF) |
Homeland Security Educational Program: A Golden Opportunity for Cooperative Extension - (PDF) |
Making Your Own Biodiesel - (PDF) |
Health and Safety of Virginia Agriculturists Survey (PDF) |
Extension Programs: |
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Serving
the Needs of Virginia's Farm and Ranch Families Affected
by Disabilities. Virginia
AgrAbility helps individuals with disabilities overcome
barriers to continue in their chosen profession in agriculture.
The program collaborates with community professionals
to: 1) Modify
farm and ranch operations, 2) Adapt equipment, 3) Increase
farmstead accessibility, 4) Provide financial counseling,
5) Identify funding sources, and 5) Coordinate community
Service
This program, which is new
to Virginia, will coordinate and provide direct services
by qualified professional and support personnel to ensure
the identification of individual needs to persons with
disabilities. The recipient must reside in Virginia and
their family's primary income must be from the agriculture
industry or they intend to make the agriculture industry
their vocation. Their source of personal income is farming,
ranching or other related agricultural enterprise. Virginia
AgrAbility, with the help of their partners, will deliver
services such as public education, rehabilitative therapies,
assistive technology, in-home health care, peer counseling,
independent life skills training, equipment modification
and accidental disability prevention.
Virginia
AgrAbility will direct its service delivery through
facilitation of the Virginia Rural Rehabilitation Partnership
(Partnership). The Partnership is a collaborative program
through the cooperation of Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University (VA Tech), Cooperative
Extension, National
Easter Seals (NES), Easter
Seals Virginia (ESV), Virginia
Assistive Technology System (VATS), Woodrow
Wilson Rehabilitation Center (WWRC), Virginia
Department of Rehabilitative Services (DRS), Virginia
Farm Bureau (VFB) and other local resources. Local
resources essential to the overall success of this program
include cooperation from existing community, social, education,
rescue, and health organizations. Additional cooperation
through local Centers
for Independent Living (CIL's) will provide resources
for training, community awareness, information, referral
and follow-up, and peer counseling in most geographical
areas of Virginia. Each of these organizations will offer
their talents and resources in a cooperative effort to
meet the unique needs of farm and ranch clientele throughout
Virginia. (See Newsletters) |
Virginia Emergency
Response |
Virginia Cooperative Extension Emergency
Preparedness: Ag Damage Assessment Tutorial
Description. Tutorial describes the route for ag damage
assessment and interaction with state and county officials.
AGENTS - Please review VCE
Emergency Preparedness Policy and contact your local
FAC committee for more details. VCE Plan-of-Work for Virginia
Emergency Response
Other useful links for information and status of nature
& man-made disasters:
Virginia Cooperative Extension is a member of the Extension
Disaster Education Network (EDEN), which provides
a national collaborative web database to support Extension
education programs in the areas of disaster preparation,
mitigation, and recovery. In addition, the database includes
a national network of experts and state EDEN contacts.
Family Emergency Preparedness slide set or video available
from the Virginia
Department of Emergency Preparedness or the Red
Cross.
FEMA resources on home and
family disaster prevention and recovery
Red Cross resources on
home and family disaster prevention and recovery
Resources on disaster preparedness in homes and childcare
centers, available from the Institute
of Business and Home Safety |
Nozzle Technologies
to Enhance Effectiveness |
This
is focused on the review of current agricultural spray
nozzles and what new designs have to offer to reduce
the drift potential. Several comparisons are made with
nozzles with a spray table using computer video presentation.
The educational goals are to select nozzle that improve
pesticide performance while reducing the potential of
small drops that tend to drift.
The presentation
can also demonstrate the "Ounce"
Calibration method to properly fine tune sprayer
operation. The method has an extension fact sheet found
under the publications list.
A spray
table demonstration and spray cube is also available
for hands-on exercises and small audiences. |
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