Agricultural and Resource EconomicsDepartment Records 1909-2008 1931-1999

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Agricultural and Resource EconomicsDepartment Records 1909-2008 1931-1999

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The Agricultural and Resource EconomicsDepartment Records document research, teaching, and extension activitiesin agricultural economics and farm management at Oregon State Universityand provide extensive documentation of the economics of Oregonagriculture. The records include administrative materials, speeches andpresentations, reports and original data for studies conducted bydepartment faculty, records of the Western Rural Development Center, andextensive economic and statistical data on agriculture in Oregon assembledby the Oregon Agricultural Information Network (OAIN).

32.5 cubic feet, 34 boxes, including 2 oversize boxes, and 1 map folder; 24 microfilm reels

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Oregon State University Libraries University Archives

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Oregon State College. Dept. of Farm Management.

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Oregon State University. Extension Service

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On July 24, 1911, Oregon Agricultural College's Board of Regents organized the Oregon Extension Service in response to requests from citizens of Oregon for assistance (particularly in agriculture) from the college. R.D. Hetzel, professor of political science, was named as the first director of the Extension Service. The first county extension agents began in Marion and Wallowa Counties in September of 1912. Legislation permitting counties to appropriate money for extension work that would be mat...

Western Rural Development Center

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Oregon State College. Dept. of Agricultural Economics.

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Wood, G. B. (Gregory Burton), 1909-

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Oregon State University. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

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Classes pertaining to agricultural economics were first taught at Oregon Agricultural College early in the 20th century as part of the Agronomy Department. In 1917 that department was divided into four separate ones; the Farm Management Department included the agricultural economics courses. Other classes in the subject area were also taught by Dr. Hector MacPherson in the School of Commerce. With the reorganization of higher education in Oregon in the early 1930s, the Oregon State College Schoo...