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Forage Drops - an educational forage and livestock channel

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Liliane Severino da Silva
Forages Specialist
Clemson University
Blackville

Team Members: Severino da Silva, L1
  1. Forages Specialist, , Blackville, South Carolina, 29817

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Forage Drops was created by Dr. Liliane Silva on December/2020. The goal is to develop timely and weekly educational content on forages and livestock-related topics for Extension clientele. From 2020 to August 2021, Dr. Silva posted Forage Drops videos on Alabama Cooperative Extension System channels where Silva was a Postdoctoral Fellow. Since January 2022, Dr. Silva has developed a multi-channel social media effort for Forage Drops expanding her project to pages on YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Dr. Silva is responsible for developing and managing content for Forage Drops and currently, she uses the resources to continue to develop educational content and to provide research updates regarding her research studies and program, and programming activities (Extension publications, etc.). The reach and engagement of her pages currently average 240,000 people/year. She has over 270 subscribers on YouTube and over 420 on Facebook and Instagram. She continues to focus on developing content and has been able to reach several states and countries. The address for Forage Drops on YouTube is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2fj2-Vnat-_GR6rFmLz8Ag