The Extension Service is a partnership involving the United States Department of Agriculture, the University of Florida as Florida's land-grant university, and Manatee County government. A land-grant university has a special mission to serve every citizen in every corner of every state. What better way to do this than to have an Extension Service in virtually every county in the United States. Extension was established nationally in 1914 and in Manatee County in 1918.
Extension has a proud history of service to all of our citizens.