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  2. Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station - Wikipedia

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    The Arkansas legislature in 1888 established the Agricultural Experiment Station with matching federal funding from the Hatch Act of 1887. The first AES Director, Albert Menke , used increased funding for faculty and staff to expand the research program and course offerings by the same faculty members.

  3. Big Buffalo Valley Historic District - Wikipedia

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    It comprises the Boxley Valley in northern Arkansas, near the town of Ponca. The valley includes a number of family-operated farms, primarily dating between 1870 and 1930. The farms are situated on either side of the road that parallels the river, Highway 43. Many of these farms are still operated by the descendants of the original homesteaders.

  4. Plantation Agriculture Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Plantation Agriculture Museum in Scott, Arkansas, is a local museum showcasing the agricultural history of the area.Located near the Pulaski County and Lonoke County line, approximately 12 mi (19 km) east of Little Rock, Arkansas (Pulaski County), the museum park sits in the Arkansas River lowlands, near the north shore of Horseshoe Lake.

  5. Billstown, Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Billstown (also Bills Town, Bills) is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Arkansas, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Billstown is located on Arkansas Highway 301 near the Little Missouri River . First settled in 1858, [ 3 ] Billstown has active timber and some cattle farming.

  6. Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture - Wikipedia

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    This WikiProject strives to develop and improve articles at Wikipedia related to crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, dairy farming and forest management.The project also covers related areas, including both governmental and NGO regulatory agencies, agribusiness, support agencies such as 4H, agricultural products including fertilizers and herbicides, pest management, veterinary ...

  7. Farm and Industry Short Course - Wikipedia

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    The Short Course was the first strictly agricultural course to be given in the state, and was in session by January 1886. The course covered a period of 12 weeks and embraced 60 lectures, each on some phase of agriculture, agricultural chemistry, and agricultural botany. Twenty-four lectures were held on veterinary science.

  8. Agricultural education - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Technological College Dairy Barn was used as an agricultural teaching facility until 1967.. Agricultural education is the systematic and organized teaching, instruction and training (theoretical as well as hands-on, real-world fieldwork-based) available to students, farmers or individuals interested in the science, business and technology of agriculture (animal and plant production ...

  9. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States. Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock.