Agricultural Research FoundationRecords 1936-2007

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Agricultural Research FoundationRecords 1936-2007

The Agricultural Research FoundationRecords consist of annual and biennial reports documenting the financialstatus and research funded by the Foundation. The Agricultural ResearchFoundation was founded in 1934 to encourage and facilitate agriculturalresearch by scientists associated with Oregon State University.

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Oregon State university

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Oregon State University. Agricultural Experiment Station.

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The Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station was established under the provisions of the federal Hatch Act of 1887. Agricultural experimentation began at Oregon Agricultural College in 1888. In 1901 the first branch station was established at Union, in northeast Oregon, to address issues pertaining to the agriculture in that part of the state. Branch stations were subsequently established throughout Oregon. From the description of Agricultural Experiment Station records, 1889-2002 (bul...

Oregon State College. School of Agriculture

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Oregon State University. School of Agriculture

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Oregon State College. Agricultural Experiment Station

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The Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station was established under the provisions of the federal Hatch Act of 1887, which provided grants of $15,000 to each U.S. state and territory for experimentation in the "principles and applications of agricultural science." Agricultural experimentation began at Oregon Agricultural College in 1888 under Edgar Grimm, the Station's first director, and in 1889 state legislation was approved formally establishing the Experiment Station. That year, the Station pub...

Agricultural Research Foundation (Or.)

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The Agricultural Research Foundation was founded in 1934 to encourage, facilitate, and fund agricultural research by scientists associated with Oregon State University. As of 2006-2007, the Foundation had assets of more than $13 million and in its 73-year existence had generated over $116 million in state, federal, and private donations for agricultural research. The Foundation works closely with the College of Agricultural Sciences and the Agricultural Experiment Station. From the d...

Oregon State University. College of Agricultural Sciences

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In 1868, the Oregon Legislature designated Corvallis College as the state's agricultural college, and in 1870 Corvallis College began its agricultural curriculum. The next year the college acquired its first farm (now Lower Campus), purchased for the school by the citizens of Benton County. In 1873 the college issued its first agricultural research bulletin, and a decade later the college established a Department of Agriculture, which was the first in the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon Agricultur...