The Hatch Act of 1887 provided federal funding for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations affiliated with the land-grant colleges that had been created a quarter-century earlier under the Morrill Act, giving American agricultural science its first sustained, publicly funded institutional home. Each participating state received federal funds to support a dedicated research station conducting original research into crop and livestock improvement, soil science and farm practice, and the network of stations the Act created became the backbone of US agricultural research, later linked directly to working farmers through the Cooperative Extension Service established by the Smith-Lever Act of 1914.
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Type/ClassificationAgricultural Policy or Legislative Milestone 1 Connections
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The Hatch Act of 1887 established the federally funded state agricultural experiment station system administered under the USDA's Office of Experiment Stations.
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1. Hatch Act of 1887 (Wikipedia)
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March 2, 1887
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enacted 1887-03-02
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The Hatch Act of 1887 provided federal funding for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations affiliated with the land-grant colleges that had been created a quarter-century earlier under the Morrill Act, giving American agricultural science its first sustained, publicly funded institutional home.
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