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extension agent

American  

noun

  1. an agent employed by the county government to work with farmers to increase crop yields, prevent erosion, eliminate blights or pests, and the like.


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Flores, a county extension agent for youth programs similar to 4-H Club, said the closeness of people in the town magnifies the loss.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2022

Overuse "is a huge challenge in our field," says Bhupinder Farmaha, a nutrient management specialist at Clemson University in the US, as well as an agricultural extension agent who works with farmers like Ms Sharp.

From BBC May 26, 2022

“A lot of people don’t want bees –- there’s fear of nature,” says Holloway, the Georgia extension agent..

From Seattle Times May 6, 2022

In the absence of being able to attend classes with a master food preserver or extension agent, she points her students to resources like the U.S.

From Salon Feb. 15, 2021

Every night, for a few minutes after he got in bed, he’d read about cattle breeding in the books the extension agent had loaned to him.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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