Agricultural Extension

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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/