Wishing our students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends a Happy Thanksgiving. 🦃🍂

Turkey safety tips from @udextension: The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that around 90% of American households will serve a turkey during the Thanksgiving holiday. That translates to about 348,000 turkeys being prepped, cooked and served in the First State alone.

Diane Oliver, a @udelaware Health and Well-being Extension agent and certified ServSafe instructor, identified the top five food safety mistakes both new and experienced cooks often make when handling and preparing turkey. Click the CANR News link in bio...

Some folks develop a love for agriculture over time, but some are born with it. Starting with Daniel Vanderwende in the 1970s, three generations of Vanderwendes made their way through the @udelaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Although many family members share an alma mater, this is not where their resemblances stop. The Vanderwendes continue making strides in the fields of agriculture, animal science and agribusiness.

Read the UDaily feature on this Blue Hen family; click the CANR News...

@UDBotanicGardens is back for the holiday season with handcrafted wreaths, wreath kits, swags, grave blankets, and bows made from fresh, local materials by our volunteers and staff!🎄

Looking for one-of-a-kind gifts? Choose from mini evergreen trees, festive houseplants, and UD-grown poinsettias. These thoughtful, locally crafted items are perfect for holiday giving.

The online shop is open now until Monday, Dec. 1, at 4 p.m. Pickup is Dec. 4 (2–5 p.m.) or Dec. 5 (9 a.m.–3 p.m.) at the UD Botanic...

On an October afternoon, @udelaware students in the course Vegetables, Herbs, and Natural Plant Products (PLSC 302) planted garlic cloves on the UD Fresh to You Farm. They worked diligently to separate garlic cloves from the bulbs, spread compost out on the soil and planted the cloves.

“It’s one of those strange crops that’s planted late,” Gordon Johnson, a retired UD Cooperative Extension specialist and adjunct professor who teaches the class, told the students. “We needed to get some cold....

@UDelaware students enrolled in the course Understanding Today’s Agriculture recently visited a local organic poultry farm for an up-close, candid look into the state's largest agricultural sector.

The farm’s owner, Georgie Cartanza, is @UDExtensions’s poultry extension agent and a chicken grower herself with four poultry houses. She taught students about the importance of biosecurity on a farm.

Read all about it with the @DelmarvaFarmer at the CANR News link in our bio!

#UDel #Delaware #Agriculture #Poultry #Biosecurity

Cooperative Extension is a brand Delaware farmers and growers know — and deservedly so. Agriculture is the state’s leading economic driver.

Norman Rockwell immortalized the special relationship between farmers and Cooperative Extension agents in his 1948 painting "The County Agent," and the concept of the venerated agriculture agent endures today.

And while @UDExtension honors its agricultural roots, a lot has changed in the eight decades since Rockwell’s painting was published.

Today, Extension's impact is felt far beyond agriculture. You can...

Itchy irritation, bacterial and viral infections, heartworms: Mosquitos have few friends, it seems. 🦟 Bombing the yard with pesticides often seems like a tempting, quick solution, but indiscriminate application can produce deadly consequences for the insects we depend on to grow food and maintain a healthy ecosystem.

“The entire food chain and ecosystem would be severely disrupted without caterpillars, and subsequently, moths,” explains UD senior Em Beauchamp. “Mosquito spraying on properties like homes and businesses is a very common occurrence...

Today (November 8) is First-Generation College Celebration Day. At the University of Delaware's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, we are celebrating alumna Tiffany Carro!

According to @firstgen.forward, six years after starting college, only 24% of first-generation students earn a bachelor’s degree compared to 59% of continuing-generation students.

Carro, a UD Class of 2004 (B.S.) and 2007 (M.S.) alumna, is among the 24% of first-generation college graduates. Today, she is the director of global regulatory sciences in the research and...

@UDelaware remembers James Glancey, professor emeritus in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the College of Engineering.

Remembered for his keen intellect and his academic versatility, Glancey was equally at home in the classroom, where he taught engineering, and in the field while working with Delaware farmers.

Glancey's research in the areas of agricultural engineering, fluid mechanics, materials, nonlinear dynamics, and solid mechanics led to several patents and dozens of published research papers. At UD, Glancey collaborated with...