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Greenhouse, floriculture, and sod products – including the ornamental market – make up more than one third of the state's agricultural output. [2] [3] Cranberries, sweet corn and apples are also large sectors of production. [3] Massachusetts is the second-largest cranberry-producing (Vaccinium macrocarpon) state in the union after Wisconsin ...
Agricultural extension is the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education.The field of 'extension' now encompasses a wider range of communication and learning activities organized for rural people by educators from different disciplines, including agriculture, agricultural marketing, health, and business studies.
An extension agency is an organisation that practises extension, in the context of community development. An example is the Cooperative Extension Service , which aims to assist individuals or groups in defining and achieving their goals in rural communities in the USA.
Following the establishment of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture in 1852, 24 individuals have served as the head of this institution, which has since been known as the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture and presently the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources.
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) was an extension agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), part of the executive branch of the federal government. The 1994 Department Reorganization Act, passed by Congress, created CSREES by combining the former Cooperative State Research Service and the ...
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), a USDA office; Agricultural extension services, educational services offered to farmers and other growers; Church extension service, one church that meets at multiple locations; MUN Extension Service, a community development program of Memorial University of Newfoundland ...
Exhibition of the Society [1]. The society was established in 1829 in Boston as the Boston Horticultural Society, and promptly began weekly exhibits (in Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market) of locally grown fruit and later vegetables, teaching the newest horticultural techniques and breeds, including the local Concord grape in 1853.
The Apiary Laboratory, more often referred to as the Apiary, is a research laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Originally built for the study of honey bees and apiculture, today it is primarily used to study native pollinator species and the chemicals and pathogens impacting their populations.