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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Example Sentences

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

There are a number of reasons for this, according to Joel Flagler, a registered horticultural therapist who works as a professor and agricultural extension agent at Rutgers University.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2021

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Thomas Hymel, an extension agent in Jeanerette with the LSU Agricultural Center, said of this year’s series of storms and other troubles.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2020

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