ABSTRACT
The pace of change will accelerate even more as communications technology "collapses information float". Sophisticated information technology has revolutionized this process by vastly reducing the amount of time information spends in the communication channel. Department of Agriculture provided purposeful, effective, and dependable information for teaching agriculture. However, this information was available only to the few people who attended the land grant colleges. The Morrill Act establishing the land grant universities, the Hatch Act creating the Agricultural Experiment Stations, and the Smith-Lever Act creating the Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service were key factors in the development and delivery of information and technology for livestock producers and agriculture in general. Thus, livestock producers, like everyone else in the country, are exposed to a constant flow of information and technology in verbal, written, and visual form. There is ample information and technology available to livestock producers in the country to make good decisions.
