Seaman Asahel Knapp (1833 to 1911) was an American physician, college instructor and administrator who became a pioneer of agricultural extension work in the United States. As the second president of Iowa Agricultural College and later a U.S. Department of Agriculture demonstration agent in the South, he organized farmer-led demonstration plots, most notably a program that helped growers in Texas, Louisiana and neighboring states combat the boll weevil, work that helped lay the foundation for the country's Cooperative Extension system.
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Defining ContributionPioneered the farmer demonstration method of agricultural extension in the American South, using demonstration farms against the boll weevil that led to the legislation formalizing Cooperative Extension work. 1 Connections
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Seaman Asahel Knapp (December 16, 1833, April 1, 1911) was an American physician, college instructor, and administrator.
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This demonstration of Knapp's techniques was the first in a series of steps that eventually led to the passage of the legislation that formalized Cooperative Extension work.
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special agent for the Department of Agriculture, charged with promoting scientific farming in the South
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was the founder of the Farmers Cooperative Work Division of the Department of Agriculture
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