From the PATRIOT NEWS:
…When Cooperative Extension was added to the land-grant-university mission by an act of Congress in 1914, it completed a connection creating one of the most productive and powerful systems for change in history.
As the state’s sole land-grant institution, Penn State is part of this system built on research leading to the discovery of new knowledge, extension of that knowledge into the real world and classroom education to train the next generation.
This system has helped to create a society where less than 2 percent of our citizens produce the food required to keep the remaining 98 percent at the dinner table, and where American families spend just 8 percent of their income on that food…
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