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K-State Research and Extension
123 Umberger Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-3401
785-532-5820
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July 26, 2022

Sometime and Somewhere in Kansas…

Submitted by Gregg Hadley

Somewhere in Kansas, an extension professional or volunteer helped a…

• Family develop and implement a better meal plan to address their health concerns.

• Grower to precisely apply needed herbicides and insecticides.

• Community to identify their strategic goals.

• Parent to develop a budget that empowers them to start saving for their child’s college or vocational education.

• Champion winner and white ribbon winner (and their parents) realize how much the youth learned in completing their projects.

• Rancher to implement prescribed burn plans that enhances the quality of their rangeland.

• Community to better address childcare issues in their town.

• Farmer to better manage the price and production risk they face.

• Homeowner to install a climate appropriate lawn and garden.

• Livestock producer appropriately store and better handle livestock vaccines.

• Caregiver to provide better care for their aging parents.

• Group of producers start a local farmers market.

• Person recognize that they may be adversely affected by stress and seek out assistance.

• Colleagues do their job even better.

Your work is important. You make a difference. People and communities make important changes like these and many more because of your work. Never underestimate the power of what your extension programs can do for the people of Kansas!