The First Morrill Act of 1862 granted land for agriculture and mechanical arts to be
run by colleges and universities in all of the U.S. states. In 1890, the Second Morrill
Act enhanced the first one with a partial endowment. In 1887, the Hatch Act established
agriculture experiment stations at each of the land grant colleges and in the
Bankhead-Jones Act of 1935, a more complete endowment was provided to the land grant
colleges.
Cooperative Extension offices have been helping the agricultural community since 1914.
That was the year when the United States Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, an agreement
by which U.S. colleges and universities would receive funding and resources in exchange
for creating programs for local state residents in horticulture, nutrition and natural and
human resource development programs.
Everyone has benefited from the cooperative extension service. 59 agricultural research
stations across the nation have improved food-crop production and are among the leaders of
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which provides a common-sense approach to healthier crops
and environment.
In 1972, a busy cooperative extension agent in Washington came up with the idea of
training volunteer Master Gardeners to provide expert assistance to home gardeners. Until
that time, home gardeners were helped by agents as time permitted in their busy schedule
of helping the commercial agricultural community. The idea soon spread nationwide and
beyond and now there are about 60,000 Master Garderners nationwide.
You can find your local cooperative extension office in your county government listings
of your phone book.
Land Grant Universities and Experiment Stations:
Alabama - Auburn Univ., Auburn; http://www.auburn.edu
Alaska - Univ. of Alaska, College; http://www.alaska.edu
Experiment Station, Palmer
Arizona - Univ. of Arizona, Tucson; http://www.arizona.edu
Arkansas - Univ. of Arkansas, Fayette; http://www.uark.edu
California - Univ. of Calif., Berkeley: http://www.berkeley.edu
Colorado - Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins; http://www.colostate.edu
Connecticut - Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs; http://www.uconn.edu
Experiment Station, New Haven
Delaware - Univ. of Delaware, Newark; http://www.udel.edu
Florida - Univ. of Florida, Gainesville; http://www.ufl.edu
Georgia - Univ. of Georgia, Athens; http://www.uga.edu
Experiment Station, Experiment
Coastal Plain Station, Tifton
Hawaii - Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu; http://www.hawaii.edu
Idaho - Univ. of Idaho, Boise; http://www.uidaho.edu
Experiment Station, Moscow
Illinois - Univ. of Illinois, Urbana; http://www.uiuc.edu
Indiana - Purdue Univ., West Lafayette; http://www.purdue.edu
Iowa - Iowa State Univ., Ames; http://www.iastate.edu
Kansas - Kansas State Univ., Manhatten; http://www.ksu.edu
Kentucky - Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington; http://www.uky.edu
Louisiana - Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge; http://unix1.sncc.lsu.edu
Experiment Station, Baton Rouge
Maine - Univ. of Maine, Orono; http://www.umaine.edu
Maryland - Univ. of Maryland, College Park; http://www.ucmp.umd.edu
Massachusetts - Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; http://www.umass.edu
Michigan - Michigan State Univ., East Lansing; http://www.msu.edu
Minnesota - Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul; http://www.umn.edu
Mississippi - Mississipi State Univ., State College; http://www.msstate.edu
Missouri - Univ. of Missouri, Columbia; http://www.missouri.edu
Montana - Montana State Univ., Bozeman; http://www.montana.edu
Nebraska - Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln; http://www.unl.edu
Nevada - Univ. of Nevada, Reno; http://www.unr.edu
New Hampshire - Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham; http://www.unh.edu
New Jersey - Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick; http://www.rutgers.edu
New Mexico - New Mexico State Univ., Univ. Park; http://www.nmsu.edu
New York - Cornell Univ., Ithaca; http://www.cornell.edu
Experiment Station, Geneva
North Carolina - North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh; http://www.ncsu.edu
North Dakota - North Dakota State Univ., Fargo; http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/index.js.shtml
Ohio - Ohio State Univ., Columbus; http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu
Experiment Station, Wooster
Oklahoma - Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater; http://www.osu.okstate.edu
Oregon - Oregon State Univ., Corvallis; http://www.orst.edu
Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park; http://www.psu.edu
Puerto Rico - Univ. of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Rhode Island - Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston; http://www.uri.edu
South Carolina - Clemson Univ., Clemson; http://www.clemson.edu
South Dakota - South Dakota State Univ., Brookings; http://www.sdstate.edu
Tennessee - Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; http://www.utk.edu
Texas - Texas A&M Univ., College Station; http://www.tamu.edu
Experiment Station, Lubbock
Utah - Utah State Univ., Logan; http://www.usu.edu
Vermont - Univ. of Vermont, Burlington; http://www.uvm.edu/indexjscript.shtml
Virgin Islands - Univ. of Virgin Islands; http://www.uvi.edu/pub-relations/uvi.htm
Virginia - Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg; http://www.vt.edu
Washington - Washington State Univ., Pullman; http://www.wsu.edu
Experiment Station, Puyallup
Experiment Station, Mt. Vernon
West Virginia - West Virginia Univ., Morgantown; http://www.wvu.edu
Wisconsin - Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; http://wwiscinfo.wisc.edu
Wyoming - Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie; http://www.uwyo.edu
