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[Music]. Cooperative extension always

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seems to get in there where it's needed. We've

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had great experience with the extension service for many years.

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Extension has the research based information that we feel

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comfortable going ahead and using it for the first time

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and feeling like we'll have success. Extension is on

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the cutting edge of technology, providing the information that

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these folks will need as they have to make decisions

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daily that will impact their economic level. Within my own

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life, the extension program has really helped. Extensions been

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good for us. Production has certainly gone up in

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the past several years, and our yields have gone

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from 50 bushels to 143. I have to give

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a lot of credit to the extension service for each

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of the increases. I've been working with this global positioning

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and field mapping for two years now. I feel

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like it will help our control of the environment with

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possibly less fertilizer, if not less fertilizer fertilizer distributed

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in a better way to benefit yield as well as

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our environment. We use research based information along with

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technology of the land grant system, Virginia Tech and

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Virginia State to help solve the problems with the people

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in our communities. The farm management computer classroom on

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Wheels is a group of 17 notebook computers, which

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we take out throughout the state to teach farmers and

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small businesspeople computer applications, record keeping, financial management.

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Corporate extension is an educational tool for farmers in this

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area. It is a place where you can go

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and get one on one working relationship to identify weed

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problems, fertility problems or any other problems that you

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might have. I think that's really our mission is

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to not only help the producers in our area,

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but also help just the commonwealth in general. And

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it all goes back to providing a needed service,

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a non biased opinion, police producers to make a

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better, better living. [Music]

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Arlington Extension focuses its efforts, particularly on that

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portion of the population in the county that doesn't have

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a lot of opportunities for other educational experiences. The

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Parent Power program was designed to work with parents in

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increasing their skills, interacting with their children. I

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believe extension has a very positive role in the well

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being of families, and as we talked about starting

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small business that it affects not only the local economy,

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but it is eventually affects the well being of

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the family. And that's my major objective.

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Oh, extension service has been great, but they've

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sponsored several workshops that I've attended on the home based

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businesses and the problems at home based businesses have with

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record keeping and with marketing. And we've taken field

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trips with them, and I've learned a lot from

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the workshops that I've attended. I've seen it from

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being a client to being a volunteer to actually holding

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the program myself, and I can see firsthand the

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successes that are going on. A lot of women

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aren't motivated to go out and get jobs. A

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lot of welfare moms are kind of afraid, and

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this program just lifts them. It's a stepping stone

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for their future, and I think that's that's what

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cooperative extension is about. We work with people and

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we want them to succeed.

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[Music] People think of 4H

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as cows and cooking and green that we do

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do agricultural and stomach and stuff like that. But

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it's science and technology. Computers, outdoor living skills

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, public speaking leadership, stock, trout in the

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stream for the county. We help them. We

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are actively involved in the cleanup and preservation of the

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stream. I've got to participate in modeling and directing

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fashion and talent shows, visiting senators, the legislators

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and everything. And it's just been a wonderful experience

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. We attended the Youth Economic Development Summit in Abingdon

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, Virginia, and we had to decide on the

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project. I'm really glad I worked on it because

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it allowed me to come together with my extension agent

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and with my peers and create something that it will

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benefit our county for a long time. I enjoy

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going for a camp because of swimming and nature trips

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and meeting friends and other things. Yeah, I

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think for each is a good example of a preventive

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device venting young people from getting started those activities which

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might lead to a life of crime. Its motto

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. To make the best better. It really serves

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that motto. It really accomplishes its purpose. Let's

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go. If you have not experienced for age,

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maybe you've never heard of it. Or maybe you

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have any just never even thought about joining program.

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Then you're missing something in life. You really are

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mhm. We were able to secure a grant in

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excess of$80,000 that would allow us to construct the

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greenhouse at the Lee County Vo Tech School superintendent of

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schools was very interested, probably the most important impact

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Mr Green has. And it gave a number of

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students a marketable skill which they can use in Lee

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County. We, of course, collaborate with a

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number of agencies in the county, but we also

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involved many volunteers. So while we have a relatively

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small staff compared to the size of the county's population

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, we multiply our efforts a lot through involvement of

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volunteers. Extension work is essentially a process of educational

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leadership extension. Leadership councils are a key partnership that

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connects extension education with communities across the state. Extension

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leadership councils are composed of diverse groups of people,

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and those people include extension staff and community volunteers.

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Yeah, the mission of the Extension Leadership Councils is

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to develop and implement a program plan that directs extensions

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resources towards the resolution of community issues and concerns.

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I'm a song supporter of the extension program. I

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think that it is a good investment that the taxpayer

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get a good return on this money. It is

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a program we must continue to fund, and I

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plan to do my utmost to see that it is

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a good fun. If we do appreciate where we

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live. We appreciate the land. It's been a

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blessing and pleasure working with people. In extension,

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you can do it. Virginia Cooperative Extension is and

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always has been, a vital component of the land

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grant mission, both at Virginia Tech and at Virginia

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State. Extinction continues to provide a catalyst for economic

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development throughout the region, leveraging today's resources into tomorrow's

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assets. The research based unbiased information extension offers through

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its hundreds and hundreds of educational programs is practical.

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It's useful, and it is valuable knowledge for the

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common. Yeah, yeah, yeah!