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Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, [8] [9] ... The Cooperative Extension Service was established in 1914 by the Smith-Lever Act. The ...
Mark Everett Keenum (born January 28, 1961) is an agricultural economist who is the 19th and current university president of Mississippi State University.. He served as a professor at Mississippi State University from 1988 to 1989 and 1997 to 2009, congressional staff of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran from 1989 to 2006, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services in ...
MSU announced the formal opening of the university’s new Agricultural Autonomy Institute that combines agriculture with robots, AI and remote sensing. Robots, AI and farming: Mississippi State ...
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 ...
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.
Thomas Marvin Williams Sr. (February 15, 1890 – April 30, 1967) [1] was a politician who served in the Mississippi Senate, representing Holmes County, between 1952–1968. [2] Official records indicate that he was born in Mena, Arkansas , [ 2 ] but in his handwritten, unpublished memoir, he states that he was actually born in Indian Territory ...
The Smith–Lever Act of 1914 is a United States federal law that established a system of cooperative extension services, connected to land-grant universities, intended to inform citizens about current developments in agriculture, home economics, public policy/government, leadership, 4-H, economic development, coastal issues (National Sea Grant College Program), and related subjects.
The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (also sometimes referred to as the MDAC) is a government department of Mississippi, headquartered in Jackson. MDAC regulates agricultural-related businesses within Mississippi, as well as promotes Mississippi products throughout the world. [ 1 ]