Courses in field crops and seeds, crop breeding, thremmatology, and farm management were taught at the University's College of Agriculture beginning in the 1890s, but Agronomy first appeared as a College of Agriculture course in the 1907-1908 University Catalogue. Agronomy and Farm Management was first listed as its own course of study division in the 1913-1914 College of Agriculture Bulletin. The Board of Regents Agricultural Committee voted in June 1926 to change the name of the Division of Agronomy and Farm Management to the Division of Farm Management, Agronomy, and Plant Genetics. In April 1928, the Regents' Agricultural Committee voted to authorize a reorganization of the Division of Economics and the Division of Farm Management, Agronomy, and Plant Genetics into two new divisions: Division of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics, and Division of Agronomy and Plant Genetics.
From the description of Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics records, 1849-2009. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 704409596
