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Agricultural Extension
Also Known As Extension services; farm advisory services
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Carrying research to the field: the education of working farmers in what science has learned, so a finding becomes a practice. The modern service traces to itinerant instructors sent through famine-era Ireland from 1847, took its name from the university extension movement of 1860s England, and became an institution with the United States' Smith-Lever Act of 1914, which built the cooperative extension model most countries now echo. It is the connective tissue between the research institutions in this atlas and the farms they exist for.
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Origin YearDated from Lord Clarendon's itinerant agricultural instructors in Ireland, 1847, the earliest modern extension service the record names; the word extension came from England in 1866, and the United States cooperative service dates to the Smith-Lever Act of 1914. Cross-Tradition Connections
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The US Cooperative Extension System, established by the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, is administered through the USDA and land-grant universities.
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