Educators and administrators who built and led the extension services that carry the findings of agricultural research from colleges to farmers and rural families, including the state extension services of the United States and the extension programmes of other countries. Extension work includes demonstration farms, youth clubs such as 4-H, and training of farmers and advisers. A person belongs here when their cited article names them as a leader or expert of agricultural extension or of a cooperative extension service.
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Encyclopedia.com: Seaman Asahel Knapp
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was the founder of the Farmers Cooperative Work Division of the Department of Agriculture
Luther Duncan, Wikipedia
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He helped develop 4-H youth programs in Alabama, was director of the Alabama Extension Service (now Alabama Cooperative Extension System), and was president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University).
Wikipedia: P. O. Davis
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He served as director of the Alabama Extension Service and was its longest-serving leader.
Lawrence Obibuaku (Wikipedia)
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Lawrence Onyekele Obibuaku (5 June 1926-8 June 2021) was a Nigerian agricultural extension expert, academic and administrator.
A. B. Graham (Wikipedia)
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Albert Belmont (A.B.) Graham (1868-1960) was an American educator and early leader of the Cooperative Extension System.
Wikipedia: Cadwaladr Bryner Jones
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Sir Cadwaladr Bryner Jones (6 April 1872-10 December 1954) was a Welsh agricultural educator and civil servant.
Wikipedia: Emory Alvord
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Emory Delmont Alvord (March 25, 1899, May 6, 1959) was an American missionary and agriculturalist. Known for his missionary work in Rhodesia, Alvord's demonstrative methods are credited with revolutionising African agriculture
Carl Henry Clerk - Wikipedia
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Carl Henry Clerk (4 January 1895-28 May 1982) was a Ghanaian agricultural educationist, administrator, journalist, editor and church minister.
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