Willard W. Cochrane papers 1960s-1970s
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University of Minnesota. Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
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Farm economics first appeared as a collegiate-level course in the University’s College of Agriculture 1896-1897 Catalogue. The 1898-1899 College of Agriculture Catalogue listed farm economics under the Agriculture Course of Study with the following description, “Farm management, rotation, weeds, labor, prices, purchases and sales, farm finances, the permanent farm investment, agricultural pedagogics.” Farm economics does not appear in later catalogues, but agricultural economics app...
Cochrane, Willard Wesley, 1914-....
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Willard W. Cochrane was born on May 14, 1914 in Fresno, California. He earned his B.S. from the University of California in 1937, his M.S. in 1938 from Montana State College, M.P.A. in 1942 and Ph.D. in 1945 from Harvard University. Dr. Cochrane worked as an economist for the Farm Credit Administration (1939-1941), the War Food Administration (1943), the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (1943-1947) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the U.N. (1947-1948). He be...
