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Charting the Course: A Roadmap for Climate-Ready Programing in Extension

July 14, 2025Newsagriculture, climate, climate-ready, extension, programming, roadmap, theory of changeAlli Wenman

What does it take to make Extension’s ag programming climate-ready? After years of collaboration and insight from across the region, the Climate Ready Midwest Roadmap is here—with five focus areas to guide Extension into a climate-informed future. Whether you’re an educator, leader, or partner, this roadmap shows where you fit in—and where we go next.

Introducing Climate Ready Midwest: Empowering Extension Professionals in Climate-Smart Agriculture

June 13, 2023Newsclimate, extension, midwest, theory of changeAnne Nardi

Hello! And welcome to the Climate Ready Midwest project blog. We are a multi-state partnership working with the USDA’s Midwest Climate Hub to increase the impact of climate-smart agriculture here in the Midwest. You can learn more about our project and team here.

Our stated goals are to:

-help define what climate-smart agriculture means to the midwestern Extension agricultural community, and

-to empower Extension professionals to lead climate-informed agricultural programming across the Midwest.

These are lofty goals, so let’s dig in a little.