The 1887 Law that Powers Modern Agricultural Science
Agricultural innovation requires more than ideas — it demands acres of land, barns full of livestock, fleets of equipment, and teams of specialists who keep it all running.
Few research enterprises are as complex, costly, or foundational as agriculture. For nearly 140 years, the Hatch Act of 1887 has helped shoulder that burden, providing stable federal funding that fuels discovery across the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Specifically, the Hatch Act provided for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations at the nation’s land-grant universities, where scientists studied and recommended new practices to address farming challenges of the day.
Author's summary: The Hatch Act of 1887 supports agricultural science.
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