Extension Goals
GOAL 1
Through research and education, empower the agricultural system with knowledge that will improve competitiveness in domestic production, processing, and marketing.
- Operating Agri-Food Systems for Profitability and Sustainability
- Value Added Forest Products: Wood and Non-Wood
- Agricultural Productivity and Efficiency
- Improving Animal Health
- Animal Waste and Nutrient Management
- Forces of Change - Improving Public Understanding of the Food, Fiber, and Forest Products System
- Effective and Efficient Use of Technology
GOAL 2
To ensure an adequate food and fiber supply and food safety through improved science based detection, surveillance, prevention, and education.
GOAL 3
Through research and education on nutrition and development of more nutritious foods, enable people to make health-promoting choices.
GOAL 4
Enhance the quality of the environment through better understanding of and building on agriculture's and forestry's complex links with soil, water, air, and biotic resources.
- Management of Land Resources and Wastes
- Watershed Management and Water Quality
- Soil Management to Protect and Enhance the Environment
- Sustaining Pennsylvania Forests
- Wildlife and Fisheries Management and Sustainability
GOAL 5
Empower people and communities, through research-based information and education, to address the economic and social challenges facing our youth, families, and communities.
- Strengthen and Support Family Well-being
- Management of Individual and Family Rescues
- Workforce Preparation
- Youth Development
- Building Leadership Capacity
- Volunteer Management and Development of Volunteer Skills
- Community Capacity Building and Decisionmaking
- Income and Business Generation and Enhancement
- Healthy People/Healthy Communities
- Urban and Community Forestry
- Home Horticulture/Consumer Horticulture