Happy 150th Birthday to the USDA!!

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True to his roots as a frontier farm boy, on May 15, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation to create the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Over the next two months – in the midst of the Civil War – he signed additional legislation that expanded and transformed American farming, including the Homestead Act, and the establishment of the Land Grant agricultural university system.

 

Source:  USDA

Posted by Haylie Shipp

 

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