By the Numbers

NJAES programs are delivered through

• 10 centers/institutes and research farms on Rutgers' New Brunswick Campus
• 9 off-campus research centers and farms
• 21 county-based offices

NJAES Cooperative Extension benefits from

• More than 300 faculty and staff
• 6,800 volunteers
• $7.5 million in cooperative support from County Boards of Chosen Freeholders

NJAES Cooperative Research benefits from

• $21 million in state and federal funding
• More than $11 million in grant funding

In 2007, 4-H Youth Development Program had

• 50,391 members
• 2,319 adults and 406 youth volunteers who each provided an average of 220 volunteer hours, a value of $11 million

The Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program delivered behaviorally focused, outcome-based nutrition education classes to

• Nearly 5,000 adults
• Nearly 8,000 youth

The Master Gardener Program

• is conducted in 18 counties
• has 1,760 members
• has members who provided more than 122,000 volunteer hours, worth nearly $2.7 million

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) has

• been adopted on 66,662 acres in New Jersey
• reduced Oriental fruit moth pesticide applications by 50 to 80%
• saved field crop farmers in South Jersey up to $4,050 annually in application costs

Shellfish restoration programs in Barnegat and Delaware Bays have restored clam and oyster beds and are reversing the decline in stocks available for commercial harvest.

• The Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Program has trained nearly 100 volunteers who have raised 3.5 million clam seeds and 500,000 disease-resistant oysters
• The Delaware Bay Oyster Restoration Project has doubled oyster recruitment in targeted areas of the Delaware Bay

Get Moving-Get Healthy New Jersey has

• distributed learning kits on nutrition and physical fitness to 3,053 children and 2,000 parents
• enrolled 16,400 youth in healthy lifestyles projects
• provided in-depth health training for 101 teen and 221 adults

The Youth Farmstand Program engages at-risk youth in communities throughout New Jersey in agriculture, business, and healthy lifestyles training. In 2007,

• faculty and staff provided over 300 hours of educational activities
• participants earned $19,000 in combined wages over six sites
• the program purchased $13,600 in produce from local farmers
• more than 2,300 customers in economically disadvantaged areas purchased Jersey Fresh produce from the farmstands