
The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s new Agricultural Learning Center will be a hands-on living “classroom” or field laboratory for undergraduates, graduate students and residents of Massachusetts to actively pursue active learning about all of the forms of agriculture in the Commonwealth.
UMass Extension addresses public concerns of high priority for the Commonwealth. Part of the national Cooperative Extension System, it sponsors statewide programs in Agriculture and Landscape, Natural Resources & Environmental Conservation, Nutrition Education and the Massachusetts 4-H Youth Development Program.
The Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station operates within Center for Agriculture in the College of Natural Sciences. The Experiment Station is a mandated research organization that administers and distributes Federal Experiment Station Funds. The Experiment Station also monitors all agricultural and natural resource research related activities in the College, and encourages new research initiatives.