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hot topics: Okeechobee AgVentures! Okeechobee County Extension Agent Dan Culbert helps 4th Grade students plant a Garden in a Glove. This is one of the many activities that our Ag community taught to our young people at AgVentures on May 9, 2012. Thanks to TD Bank and all the other sponsors and our wonderful volunteers that made this FIRST ANNUAL event such a huge success! Photo (c) courtesy of Sharon Cannon, Okeechobee Magazine.
The University of Florida, Florida A&M University, and hundreds of other Land Grant Universities across the US are noting the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act. This Act of Congress was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862, and revolutionized how agricultural education is delivered in the United States. Click on the logo above to learn more about the Act; or on the stamp to learn more about Justin Morrill... To see what the Act actually said, click above!

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Okeechobee AgVentures!