Landgrantimpacts.com Database Submission Request

The ECOP Monday Minute will be on hiatus until December 4, 2023.
Happy Thanksgiving (by the numbers)!

Landgrantimpacts.com Database Submission Deadline 12/29/2023 - The National Land-grant Impacts Database (NIDB) or landgrantimpacts.org is now administered by APLU through its Board on Agriculture Assembly’s (BAA) Communications and Marketing Committee and staff. NIDB provides a publicly accessible repository of impact statements demonstrating the individual and collective value of the land-grant university tripartite mission of research, education, and Extension. Impact statements are used for variety of purposes including advocacy, accountability, and education. Please remind land-grant university authorized users to submit recent impact statements by December 29, 2023, the end of year-round collection. This will allow the 2024 writing team to opportunity update the last year's summaries and stories. Help for writing and submitting statements is available with a training video and/or the tip sheet. To update the list of authorized submitters, contact Andrea Putman and Kim Scotto.

Dr. Manjit Misra and Dr. Caroline Henney

Seaman A. Knapp Lecture Transcript - The transcript, Looking Back and Thinking Forward-If I Were Seaman A. Knapp Today, I Would Challenge Extension to...., that was presented by Caroline Henney at the 2023 APLU Annual Meeting, is available to view/download here. The historic USDA-NIFA and APLU lecture series continues next year with the Justin Smith Morrill lecture. 

USDA Requests Extension Professionals Spread the Word - 22007 Discrimination Financial Assistance Program - The Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP) provides financial assistance for farmers, ranchers and forest landowners who experienced discrimination in USDA farm lending programs prior to January 2021. Through Section 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress provided a total of $2.2 billion for this program. Technical assistance is available to applicants free of charge from the program’s regional vendors as well as from trusted cooperator organizations with extensive experience conducting outreach to producer communities. USDA extended the deadline to submit applications to January 13, 2024, to give eligible farmers, ranchers and forest landowners more time to apply for assistance. The original deadline was October 31, 2023. To ensure maximum producer participation and increase their awareness of this program and available technical assistance, USDA encourages Cooperative Extension share information about DFAP to their local producer communities. Visit and share the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program website and/or subscribe to the program newsletter.



USDA Announces New Resources to Empower Native American Young People - USDA is offering new resources to inspire Native American youths to explore Indigenous foodways and knowledge and to highlight career paths at USDA and beyond. These efforts are part of USDA’s commitment to empowering tribal self-determination and bringing Indigenous perspectives into agriculture, food and nutrition.

“USDA is reimagining how we support Indigenous agriculture and tribal communities,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “This includes reaching out to the next generation with educational opportunities both formal and informal.”

Learn more about these new resources.