Agricultural experiment station

The Morrill Act was made to make public higher education a need. With the Congress and President finding the Morrill Act a need to make education a need for the public. The Morrill Act was to make it so everyone had the opportunity for higher education and it would help farmers so therefore the whole community would benefit from education. The positive change that the act made to the public was the states were sold land to build public universities where everyone could benefit from. The Morrill act was made to make college for that was based on agriculture, the mechanic arts, and military tactics with not forgetting about literary or scientific studies. The establishment of the land grant allowed states to have 30,000 acres of public land for each member in Congress. The land grant gave the opportunity for colleges so then that made it possible for more of the public to go and get a higher education. Since the nation was torn apart because of the Civil War the nation would be able to have the leaders and workers needed to rebuild a torn nation through the institutions being build. This made the nation want to come together and build these intuitions and with Congress realizing that this is what the nation needed. Justin Morrill’s wanted the Morrill Act to pass because his father was not able to send him to college, and he thought that everyone should be giving the equal opportunity. He wanted people to be giving the opportunity to attend college with the price not being…

A Retired Professional Interview The agricultural and extension education profession has changed and developed over time. As a future worker in this career, I need to know more about the agricultural and extension education profession and how it developed with time. In order to fully understand that, I interviewed the retired extension worker in Mississippi State. He is known as one of the top soybean specialists in the US. This interview took place on Monday, March 21, 2016 at Starbucks on…

Toward a Recovery of Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks While researching texts written about nineteenth century farming, I found a few authors who published books about the literature of nineteenth century farming, particularly agricultural journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and brochures. These authors often placed the farming literature they were studying into an historical context by discussing the important events in agriculture of the year in which the literature was published (see…

Therefore, the industries employing feedstock agricultural, fishery and forestry products are a diverse group: from mere conservation (sun drying) and operations closely related to the harvest, to production, using modern methods and large capital investment, items such as textiles, pulp and food industries papel.Las are much more homogeneous and easier to classify than non-food industries, as all their products have the same end use. For example, most conservation techniques are basically…

Nothing compares to the flamboyant peculiarity of fairs. These world-wide extravaganzas are among the most bizarre place in this world. Both State Fairs and County Fairs alike use their exotic foods, their new products, and their “cute” barn animals to draw in more people. Walking down the street, performers pop up every minute performing amazing feats of balance, agility, and magic. Even every once in awhile, a lucky guess at your age, weight, or birthday will amaze all the surrounding people.…

inventions along the way that made it accessible for many agricultural producers’ farmers in particular to become productive in the production of commodities. Furthermore, fast forward to the 21rst century where the shortage of food is an everyday topic of the talk and the options to resolving the ongoing concern seems to be over look continuously. However, the establishment of vertical farming breaking the surface through Dickson Depmmoniar, who proposed this thought to reality. Through…

Distribution for Agricultural Producers of the Respondents The produces in tribal area can be channelized directly to wholesalers or through commission agents or to farmer markets. The channel of distribution for the producers of the tribes in Kalvarayan Hills is presented in the ensuing Table. Table No. 4.26 Channel of Distribution for Agricultural Produces of the Respondents S.No Source of marketed products No. of the Respondents Percentage (%) 1. Directly to whole sealers 57 19.0 2. Through…

In other parts of the world, many places have shifted from agriculture to resorts for tourist and wedding venues. More than one million hectares per year are converted from agriculture and other ‘rural ' land uses to development and most are occupied by middle and upper-class residents (McCarthy, 2008). McCarthy focuses and stresses mainly on how people are moving to rural areas for the amenities rather than for its agricultural use like it was originally. If vertical farming were to go from…

One of the most impressive technological achievements of the Aztec involved increases in the extent, efficiency, and overall productivity of natural resources for agricultural purposes. During the period that the Aztec empire occupied the highlands of central Mexico, from early 14th through the early 16th centuries CE, its rulers had to figure out how to feed their growing and developing population. The act of agricultural intensification became a crucial economic component to meet these…

Farmers are laborers who work by planting crops or raising livestock for a living. They may own fields in which they sow or may be a laborer on fields owned by a farm owner. In China, these farmers contribute a lot to the economy of the country. Most of these farmers are a part of the masses, people who may be poor or people who only have enough resources for themselves. The development of farming throughout the years in China has helped the country to grow into what it is today. China faces…